noon
A tantalizing remembrance of his face disturbed her for a moment , but only for a moment , and then tired nature carried her back to the land of dreams . She had seen him somewhere , but where , she was too sleepy to think out . The next morning Silas came with his bobsled and they helped Luther into a chair and carried him in it to the sled and so to his home . John and his mother came a little after noon , and the girl watched to see how her husband would like the new man , half afraid that because she had secured him in John 's absence that he would not like him , and she wished it might be possible to keep him with them . She need not have worried , for Hugh Noland had looked about the place and decided to make himself so necessary to its proprietor that his presence would be desired , and he had gifts which favoured him in that respect . Besides , John had been unsuccessful in obtaining help and was overjoyed to come home and find the cattle fed and everything at the barn in good order . Patsie and her mate were hitched to the lumber wagon and stood waiting in the lane when John came and Jack was being wrapped in his warmest cloak .