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Updated: June 13, 2025
This went on for more than a week; by and by the uncertainty began to wear greatly upon him. "Dear me!" he sighed one morning, as he sat in his office, his little gaitered feet upon the rusty top of his air-tight stove, and his brierwood pipe at his lips it had gone out, leaving a bowl of cheerless white ashes, "dear me!
"Ef ye won't tell who teched it, I'll gin a good word fur ye ter them witches what war inquirin' round fur ye ter-day." Jim promised in hot haste, and then, the rain having ceased, he started for home, but Brierwood stopped him at the door. "Hold on thar, bub.
Every man they met stopped them to repeat the story that Coggin's boy had told somebody that it was his father who had robbed the traveler, and hid the empty pocket-book in the chinking of the church wall. No one knew who had set this report in circulation, but a blacksmith said he heard it first from a man named Brierwood, who had stopped at his shop to have his horse shod.
Just as he expected, Hatton was standing in front of the open fireplace puffing furiously at a chunky little brierwood pipe. He looked up from under his heavy eyebrows as McLean came in, but said nothing.
"Dick," he exclaimed, "get into your overcoat as fast as you can and drive over to Brierwood with Uncle Neb. Ruth's gone ahead of you, and you couldn't have a better deputy short of an angel." Dick wrung the Major's hand and fled to the waiting sleigh, the color flooding his face.
The leaves without were fitfully astir, and once the porch creaked suddenly. Brierwood glanced at the door sharply, even fearfully, his hand motionless on the rolls of money. "Only the wind, Amos, only the wind!" said the short, stout man impatiently. But he, himself, was disquieted the next moment when a horse neighed shrilly. "That ain't my beastis, Amos, nor yit your'n!" he cried, starting up.
Jim, infinitely important, and really understanding little of what was going on, except that all these big men were looking at him, crossed the room with as much stateliness as is compatible with a pair of baggy brown jeans trousers, a plaid comforter tied between the shoulder-blades in a big knot, a tow-head, and a tattered black hat; he slipped his grimy paw in the chinking where Amos Brierwood had hid the pocket-book, and drew it thence, with the prideful exclamation,
A suit of copper-colored jeans hung loosely on his tall, lank frame, and when he placed the lantern on a bench and stretched out both arms as if he were tired, he showed that his left hand was maimed, the thumb had been cut off at the first joint. A thickset, short, swaggering man tramped in after him. "Waal, Amos Brierwood," he said, "it's safes' fur us ter part.
Then they fell to disputing and quarreling, once they almost fought, but at length the division was made and they rose to go. As Brierwood swung his lantern round, his malicious eyes fell upon the poor little plaid bat sticking against the wall. He stood in the door staring, dumfounded for a moment. Then he clenched his fist, and shook it fiercely.
The moon had already risen when Bradley, with his brierwood pipe, preceded Richardson upon the veranda. The latter threw his large frame into Louise's rocking-chair near the edge of the abyss; Bradley, with his own chair tilted against the side of the house after the national fashion, waited for him to speak. The absence of Mainwaring and the stimulus of Mrs.
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