their room on the
right end of the house and Reid and I to ours on the left.

"Reid wore his hair long and roached back; mine I have always worn
short. We undressed and went to bed, both pretending to be sleepy.

"After an hour I got up, dressed, and started out, when my friend, who
had been playing possum all the time, said: 'Where are you going?'

"'I'm not sleepy; I think I will take a little walk.'

"'Don't you want your hat?'

"'No.'

"And so I walked around to the north end of the house, where our host's
daughter sat at the open window.

"I said something about it being a pleasant night, to which she replied:

"'Ayr you the long-haired or the short-haired one?'

"'The short-haired one.'

"'Bend over so I can feel and see.'

"So I bent over, happy to have my clipped locks caressed by her capable
hands, when she gave me a crack with a rolling pin or some other
delicate instrument. And, without a word, half staggering, I walked out
from the shadow of the house into the moonlight and sat down on the
stile blocks until I could distinguish the real from the artificial
stars. Then I went in and to bed.

"Reid was half-dressed when I came in and, about the time I climbed into
bed, he went out the door for a walk, blaming me for waking him up.

"In a little while he came back, looking the worse for wear. A few drops
of blood discolored his cheek near the ear. He never told me what
happened. I only know that after that night he was not so restless and
took no moonlight strolls.

"The next night I helped the girl again with her compound interest, but
Reid talked to the old man about running logs down the river on the June
tide."

Thursday morning, Cornwall and his party, having completed the surveys,
returned to Harlan.

A week later Mrs. Saylor met him by appointment in Pineville. They went
to the jail with a notary, when she and her husband executed a deed to
the Pittsburgh Coal & Coke Company for the Straight Creek place, and
were given a check for the purchase price, thirty-five thousand
dollars.

CHAPTER V.

THE SAYLORS MOVE TO THE BLUEGRASS.

In November the Court of Appeals reversed the case of Saylor against the
Commonwealth and remanded it for retrial. Saylor gave bail in the sum of
three thousand dollars and was discharged from custody.

He passed the first two or three days of his freedom at the old place on
Straight Creek; then he and his wife took the train at Pineville for
Ri