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Then they went down the hillside and back to the settlement , where Nasmyth harnessed the team , which the rancher who lived near occasionally placed at Waynefleet 's disposal , to a dilapidated waggon . When she gathered the reins up , Laura smiled down on him . `` After all , '' she reminded him , `` you will remember that I expect you to do me credit . '' She drove away , and Nasmyth walked back to his camp beside the dam , where the men were awaiting the six o'clock supper . He leaned upon a pine-stump , looking at them gravely , when he had called them together . `` Boys , '' he said , `` the river , as you know , has wiped out most of the dam . Now , it was a tight fit for me to finance the thing , and I do n't get any further payment until the stone-work 's graded to a certain level .