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murmured Helen . `` Reckon you 'll only begin to care when thet happens . Your big hunter has got to be put to work , '' replied Roy , with his keen smile . Before noon that day the baggage Helen had packed at home was left on the porch of Widow Cass 's cottage , and Helen 's anxious need of the hour was satisfied . She was made comfortable in the old woman 's one spare room , and she set herself the task of fortitude and endurance . To her surprise , many of Mrs. Cass 's neighbors came unobtrusively to the back door of the little cottage and made sympathetic inquiries . They appeared a subdued and apprehensive group , and whispered to one another as they left .