"Haven't you seen a lodestone or a bit of steel in the shape of a horseshoe that will pick up a needle of its own power?"
"I can do that. Is it a sign that I'm magnetic?"
"Sure. You are the power of attraction just now."
"Aw," she ejaculated, looking shyly at him, "I don't know whut you mean yet."
"I'll bring a stone when I go to the village again and teach you something of the power of magnetism."
"Ye needn't. I know all about that. Al Thompson said onct that I was so powerful a magnetic that he jest couldn't keep away from me. Now I know whut he meant."
"Who is Al Thompson?" asked Wade.
"Why, don't ye know? He's ther wolf—night-watch jest now."
"You are talking strange things to me, Nora. I don't know the wolf—night-watch—at all." The girl placed her finger over her lips. "Here comes Mam," she said.
The scrawny figure of Mrs. Judson appeared in the doorway. "Nora," she said, drawling, "who'd ye say this man was?"