Sisson and a couple of the teetotalers stayed in camp during the weekend, cleaning up, doing their laundry, swimming and lounging at various pools. Sisson usually went to town Saturday morning and brought back supplies, including good meat, potatoes, and a couple bottles of good bootleg whiskey for them to drink through the week. Sisson stayed away from town in the evenings, fearing the kinds of trouble that generally got started there. He had had enough of prison and had no desire to ever go back. He reasoned that if it was difficult to resist temptation, it was easier to avoid it altogether.

When the work routine had become established, Jeff took to sending Granny Jane and Ola May down from the Garden to the camp with food—biscuits and pies, chickens and vinegar slaw—hoping they would entice more of the men to stay in camp over the weekend and do more work. Granny and Ola came down in a one-horse carriage, picking their way down the small trail they had cut earlier. Ola, a capable horsewoman, took charge of the trip down and back.

It had some effect. A couple of the younger boys stayed on because of Ola, who was a pretty girl with a lot of history that might or might not be true. What they did know was that she looked a man over without apology and stared him right in the eye as if she, and not he, were the pursuer. While the boys and the men were willing enough to complain about Ola May's “brazenness,” they did nothing to avoid her and everything to encourage her.

One Sunday, with a borrowed horse hitched to the carriage, Ola and Granny Jane made their way down the canyon with fried chicken, potatoes, biscuits, and wild raspberry pie. They delivered the dinner to Sisson and stayed awhile, Granny talking with Sisson, Ola May keeping an eye on part of a pool she could just glimpse through the sycamore cover and catch the occasional glimpse of a couple of boys swimming and playing in the water.

When the boys came from the pool, wet but dressed, Granny Jane became anxious to get started back toward the Garden, though Ola May had taken a sudden interest in hearing Sisson's account of the week as the boys began picking the covers from the baskets of food she and Granny Jane brought. The more interested Ola May became, the more anxious Granny Jane was to get going on their way back up the canyon. Finally, Ola May relented, and they started back.

“You needn't be eyeing those boys like that,” Granny Jane said.

“No harm in it,” Ola May replied.

“You'll find out about ‘harm’ if you keep it up. Nothing in the world glitters quite like a useless man.”

“Glitter ain't so bad, and there's no harm in looking.”