"
"I see no sign of it," he said, looking through the door again.
"That's because you're looking in the water and the sky and the mud for
it," she said, with a laugh. "I reckon you've been trained to watch them
things a heap better than to study the folks about here."
"I daresay you're right," said Hemmingway cheerfully, "but I don't
clearly see what the folks about here have to do with our situation just
now."
"You'll see," she said, with a smile of mischievous mystery. "All the
same," she added, with a sudden and dangerous softness in her eyes, "I
ain't sayin' that YOU ain't kinder right neither."
An hour ago he would have laughed at the thought that a mere look and
sentence like this from the girl could have made his heart beat. "Then I
may go on and talk?"
She smiled, but her eyes said, "Yes," plainly.
He turned to take a chair near her. Suddenly the cabin trembled, there
was a sound of scraping, a bump, and then the whole structure tilted to
one side and they were both thrown violently towards the corner, with a
swift inrush of water.
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