The stranger, with an inarticulate murmur, afterwards disguised as a cough, followed her meekly.

Nevertheless, by the time they had reached the cabin he had shaken his long hair over his eyes again, and a dark abstraction gathered chiefly in his eyebrows.

But it did not efface from the girl's mind the previous concession of a blush, and, although it added to her curiosity, did not alarm her.

He drank the milk awkwardly.
But by the laws of courtesy, even among the most savage tribes, she felt he was, at that moment at least, harmless.

A timid smile fluttered around her mouth as she said:-- "When ye hung up them things I thought ye might be havin' suthing to swap or sell.