Renti did not come back.
"Scalawag!" exclaimed the woman angrily, when she found herself still working alone an hour afterward. It was now growing dark, and she gathered up her tools and went into the house.
When the farmer and his men came home to supper Renti had not appeared.
"Now you must teach him who is master," said the wife, after she had told her husband about Renti.
"Yes, he shall learn it once for all," he replied.
Supper-time came and passed and the workmen went to bed; only the farmer and his wife were still busy with their last duties.
At length Renti appeared in the door.
"Straggler!" the farmer called out angrily. "Where have you been roaming about?"
Renti said nothing.