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`` I can understand that , dear ; but it would have been a poor consolation for me had you been killed in endeavouring to right a wrong that I could very well put up with , and shall forget in a week . '' `` I suppose so , mother . I should not so much mind if I only knew the fellow 's name , or even knew him by sight , so that I might possibly have the chance some day of settling accounts with him . '' They walked on until eight o'clock , and then rested under the shade of some rocks . Fortunately there had been some rain two days before , and they had been able to quench their thirst at a little stream that came down from the hills . There were in all some thirty women and eighteen men . `` Look here , Harris , '' Chris said , `` there is a farmhouse over there , and as I see cattle and horses , it evidently is not deserted .