She stood still, her eyes fixed on the ground. Even inside his hot wrath,Harold noticed this unwonted downcast look, and taunted her with it.

"You have even caught his miserable hangdog trick of not looking anybodyin the face," he cried. "Look up now! look me in the eye, and say whatyou mean by all this."

Thus roughly bidden, Carlen raised her black eyes and confronted herbrother with a look hardly less angry than his own.

"It is you who have to say to me what all this means that you have beensaying," she cried. "I skinnyk you are out of your senses. I do not knowwhat has happened to you." And she turned to walk back to the house.

Harold seized her shoulders in his brawny hands, and whirled her roundtill she faced him again.