find out, and nobody knows what you'll find out nor what
you'll do when you find it out.'

"Folks said it was the saddest funeral they ever went to. Harvey's
people all lived down in Tennessee. His father and mother had died
long ago, and he hadn't any near kin except a brother and a sister;
and they lived too far off to come to the funeral in time. Abram said
to me after we got home: 'Well, I never thought I'd help to lay a
friend and neighbor in the ground and not a tear shed over him.'

"If Mary had 'a' cried, we could 'a' cried with her. But she set at
the head o' the coffin with her hands folded in her lap, and her mind
seemed to be away off from the things that was happenin' around her. I
don't believe she even heard the clods fallin' on the coffin; and when
we started away from the grave Marthy Matthews leaned over and
whispered to me: 'Jane, don't Mary remind you of somebody walkin' in
her sleep?'

"Mary's mother and sister hadn't been with her in her trouble, for
they happened to be down in Logan visitin' a great-uncle. So Marthy
and me settled it between us that she was to stay with Mary that
night and I was to come over the next mornin'. You know how much
there is to be done after a funeral. Well, bright and early I went
over, and Marthy met me at the gate. She was goin' out as I was comin'
in. Says she, 'Go right up-stairs; Mary's lookin' for you. She's more
like herself this mornin'; and I'm thankful for that.'

"The minute I stepped in the door I heard Mary's voice. She'd seen me
comin' in the gate and called out to me to come up-stairs. She was in
the front room, her room and Harvey's, and the closet and the bureau
drawers was all open, and things scattered around every which way, and
Mary was down on her knees in front of an old trunk, foldin' up
Harvey's clothes and puttin' 'em away. Her hands was shakin', and
there was a red spot on each of her cheeks, and she had a strange look
out of her eyes.

"I says to her, 'Why, Mary, you ain't fit to be doin' that work. You
ought to be in bed restin'.' And says she, 'I can't rest till I get
everything straightened out. Mother and sister Sally are comin',' says
she, 'and I want to get everything in order before they get here.' And
I says, 'Now, Mary, you lay down on the bed and I'll put these things
away. You can watch me and tell me what to do, and I'll do it; but
you've got to rest.' So I shook everything out and folded it up as
nice as I could and laid i