the woman

…The woman's face, which the faint flame over which she was crouched, revealed with painful clearness, showed pale and haggard.…

…Within the lonely hut, which thus seemed forgotten of heaven itself, sat a woman huddling her young, two girls and a boy.…

…The shanty startin'ly looked open enough the last time I fetched the trail past the clearin', and though with the help of the moss and the clay in the bank she might make it comfortable, yet if the vagabond that be her husband has forgot his own and deserted them, as Wild Bill said he had, I doubt if there be victuals enough in the shanty to keep em from sta…