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Updated: May 16, 2025
His years of toil in the West had gone for nothing, for the money he had earned had been put into the land which was now occupied by a stranger. This was what the people said. The young men were loud in their expressions of sympathy. The older heads shook dubiously. "There would be trouble." "Donald had a determined look. Duquette made a mistake in taking the farm.
The sale of the farm was made in a moment of angry impetuosity. Donald regretted the act, and wanted the sale cancelled upon terms which would settle his claim for the $900. The money-lender re-sold the farm to a French family named Duquette. Popular sympathy is not analytical. It grasps large features. It overlooks minutiæ. Donald had been wronged. He had been despoiled of his farm.
'Twas about midnight in the village of Marsden. Darkness enveloped it as a mourning garment. The Duquettes had not yet retired to rest. Mrs. Duquette had been kept up by an ailing child. She was sitting with her little one on her knee. Suddenly there was a detonation and a crash of glass. A whizzing bullet lodged in the face of the clock above Mrs. Duquette's head. Who fired the shot?
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