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And he was glad that 'Siah Bolderwood had promised to remain at or near the Hardings' home while he, Enoch, was at Westminster. Under Lot's advice the two boys said nothing of the little scene at the inn and the next morning Mr. Lewis went with other stable men of the town to call upon the justices who would preside at the court when it met.
"What, sir?" cried the fellow. "Do you think I weep because of your promised punishment? I fear you not I am a leal subject of the King and peaceful. You cannot touch me. But I weep because of the work that dastard has done this day." "What do you mean?" cried Bolderwood, fiercely. "Where is the woman and her bairns?"
"Look at this, 'Member!" cried Bolderwood, dragging the trembling surveyor forward. "What a sight this is to blister the eyes of decent men! A poor widder's house burned about her ears and only by the mercy of God were she and her youngsters saved." "The villains!" roared Baker. "And is that one of them?" "He was with the party.
"We'll make yonder hovel that you boys play in, all tight and warm for the winter, Nuck," Bolderwood observed, seeing the tears running down the boy's cheeks. "Don't cry about it. And we'll have up a better house than this in the spring, lad. The neighbors will all help ye." Meanwhile, however, Bolderwood had kept his eye upon the surveyor.
"Then I must have more men to my following than anybody else," declared Allen, vigorously. "I have seen a great many myself, but there are districts I haven't been able to reach." "We must send out a cross of fire to rouse the clans," Captain Warner said, with a smile. "But who shall go? Bolderwood?"
It may be the battle of our lives; we may l'arn to-day whether we are to be free people here in Bennington, or are to be driven out like sheep at the command of a flunkey under a royal person who lives so far across the sea that he knows naught of, nor cares naught for us." "You talk desp'rately against the King, Mr. Bolderwood!" exclaimed Enoch, looking askance at his companion.
An' I see a chap behind you there that'll be some interested in meeting the rascal, too." 'Siah had looked past the officers and, in the very front rank, caught sight of his young friend Enoch. The latter waved his hand to the tall woodsman and Bolderwood, knowing that discipline was lax on the march, beckoned Enoch forward. "Come here, youngster, and hear what news I've got for ye," he cried.
Now that night had come and the darkness would have covered the movements of the American troops, as the head of the column did not appear, Bolderwood and his comrades began to fear that something had detained their friends and that the attack upon Ticonderoga might be postponed until the night of the tenth.
"We'll have to take that feller in and hold him for the Colonel to talk to," suggested one of the scouts when it became apparent that the stranger from the fort was coming ashore near at hand. "He'll see them boats an' suspicion something." "We'll meet him," said Bolderwood; "but I'm reck'ning that he'll be as glad to see the Colonel as the Colonel is ter see him.
The surveyor was taken behind the log barn, his coat and shirt stripped from his back, and Bolderwood and one of the other neighbors fulfilled the order of Captain Baker as judge of the military court.
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