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How many times had the squaw and her burnt brat, now long since called to the land of their fathers, moaned through the winter nights, making the shanty ring with their piteous plaints! How many times Tessibel had imagined that she had seen the headless man from Haytes' Corner flit from the shadows of the long lane and lose himself in the overhanging willows on the shore!
"He lives in the church, and when a baby is baptized He comes and stands by the font, and when the water falls upon it, He takes away all the sin that it is born with." Tess grunted disbelievingly. "Can ye sees him?" "No; He is a spirit." "Ye mean that he air like the headless man from Haytes, and the squaw with her burnt brat?"
Ben Letts broke in upon the girl's voice: "Tessie, will ye row on the lake after the goin' down of the sun? I'll take my fiddle.... Ye like my fiddlin', don't ye, Tess?" "Nope," she replied, her eyes still upon the book. "'I am come in my Father's name, and ye " Ezra interrupted the unfinished verse. "Tessibel, will ye go to the meetin' at Haytes'? The man says as how the squatters air welcome."
She could hear the church bell at Haytes Corner ringing out a welcome to the country folk; she could hear the tolling of the chapel bell from the University hill. Clothed in the clean skirt she had washed at the time she had thought of going to Auburn prison, and a worn but clean jacket, Tess felt fit to face the best-dressed in Ithaca.
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