CHAPTER 15A WOMAN’S SMILE
Jimmy thought that on the way he would be able to explain more fully, but explanations did not come to him easily. And she, strange to say, asked no questions that might have brought words to him. But she went on with him cheerfully, until they were close to the shack which had once been Si Turner’s, and he could see from it the light that shone from the kitchen window like a fatal star.
He halted, ten steps from the door. “You go on alone. I’m waiting out here. Lou, I’d die for you, after this!” he told her in a whisper.
She pressed his hand and went straight on.
He was so dazed with the thing that he had ventured upon that he sank down on one knee and looked after her, and it seemed to him that rays and sparkles of light emanated from her, though of course t
