midday
She fell asleep again with her sponge cake half eaten , and he picked her up and nestled her in the hay as though she were in very truth a child . Then , as on the first night at the deserted mill near Hudsondale , he sat down at the foot of the haystack , on guard . It was well for them , however , that the haying was done in that particular field , and no farmer appeared from the big white house just over the hill , for in spite of his most valiant efforts Jim , too , slumbered , and it was broad day when he awoke . Lou had vanished from the haystack , but he found her at a little spring in a strip of woodland on the other side of the road , and they breakfasted hastily , conserving the last fragments of food for their midday meal , and started off . They had left the last chimney of Parksville well behind them when Jim suddenly observed : `` You 're limping , Lou . Let me see your shoes . '' She drew away from him .