![]() ![]() ![]() However, there is no record of her name and I fancy there are few persons living today who ever knew the secret of the boarded up window, or of his wife, but I indeed am one, as you shall see. In that eastern country whence he came he had married, as was the fashion, a young woman in all ways worthy of his honest devotion, who shared the dangers and privations of his lot with a willing spirit and light heart. The man's name was said to be Murlock, and when he built his cabin and began laying sturdily about with his ax to hew out a farm-the rifle, meanwhile, his means of support-he was young, strong and full of hope. And none knew why it was so closed certainly not because of the occupant's dislike of light and air, for on those rare occasions when a hunter had passed that lonely spot the recluse had commonly been seen sunning himself on his doorstep if heaven had provided sunshine for his need. The latter, however, was boarded up-nobody could remember a time when it was not. ![]() The little log house, with its chimney of sticks, its roof of warping clapboards weighted with traversing poles and its "chinking" of clay, had a single door and, directly opposite, a window. ![]()
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