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Come now! I am not going to kidnap you, and you can't come to much harm by driving round about Portman Square for a few minutes, in the company of an old woman! Dickerson," she went on, as Selwood motioned Peggie to enter the car, "drive us very slowly round about here until I tell you to stop go round the square anywhere."
"You see, it come on spring and summer; and the winders o' the Cap'n Brown house stood open, and folks was all a watchin' on 'em day and night. Aunt Sally Dickerson told the minister's wife that she'd seen in plain daylight a woman a settin' at the chamber winder atween four and five o'clock in the mornin', jist a settin' a lookin' out and a doin' nothin', like anybody else.
Atterson's timber in danger, but Darrell's tract and that lying beyond would be overwhelmed by the flames if they were allowed to spread. On the other side, Dickerson had cut his timber a year or two before, clear to the river. The fire would not burn far over his line. Whoever had done this dastardly act, Dickerson's property would not be damaged. But Hiram lent no time to trouble.
Pete raised a yell which startled the long-legged man striding over the hill toward the Dickerson farmhouse. Hiram saw the older Dickerson turn, stare, and then start toward them. Pete continued to beckon, and began to yell: "Dad! Dad! He won't let me have the hosses!"
Dickerson and I should have trouble unless other neighbors make trouble for us." "Right, boy right!" called Cale Schell, from behind the counter, where he could hear and comment upon all that went on in the middle of the room, despite the attention he had to give to his customers. "Well, if you can git along with Sam and Pete, you'll do well," laughed another of the group.
If he gave him or the elder Dickerson a chance to clear up matters by making good to Mrs. Atterson for what she had lost, Hiram Strong decided that he was being very lenient indeed. He stepped quietly onto the porch and rapped on the door. Then he backed off and waited for some response from within. "Hullo, Mr. Strong!" exclaimed the farmer, coming himself to the "door.
Once, when he spoke to Pepper, and the snaky man sneered at him and laughed, the young farmer came near attacking him then and there in the street. "I certainly could have given that Pepper as good a thrashing as ever he got," muttered Hiram. "And even Pete Dickerson never deserved one more than Pepper."
"You come here and intermate that any of my family's thieves, do you?" the angry man roared. "Stop that, Sam Dickerson!" cried his wife. She suddenly gained courage and ran to the struggling pair, and tried to haul Sam away from Hiram. "The boy's right," she gasped. "I heard Pete tellin' little Sam last night what he'd done.
"What are you doing here, Dickerson?" demanded the young farmer, indignantly. "Well, if you wanter keep us out, you'd better keep up your fences better," returned Pete. "I seen the wires down, and it's handy " "You cut those wires!" interrupted Hiram, angrily. "You're another," drawled Pete, but grinning in a way to exasperate the young farmer. "I know you did so."
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