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But when I reached the street I begun to wonder to myself if I hadn't better just see what those fellers would do next no harm in ketchin' on to as many city ways as possible so I hid under the stoop till they come out, glancin' sharp this way and that, but missin' Ezekiel George Washington. "Up the street they skips; me after 'em, soon's I could, safe. Round the corner they goes. Me, too.
"What the devil do you mean?" said Demorest, sitting up. "I mean," said Ezekiel, with momentous deliberation, "that E. Blandford, of the Winnipeg Mills, was in March, '50, ez nigh bein' bust up ez any man kin be without actually failin'; that he'd been down to Boston that day to get some extensions; that old Deacon Salisbury knew it, and had been pesterin' Mrs.
The stranger drew back in undisguised amazement; the two men glanced hurriedly at each other; Ezekiel alone remained cool, smiling, imperturbable, and triumphant. "Who are YOU, sir? I do not know you," demanded the newcomer, roughly. "Like ez not," said Corwin dryly, "it's a matter o' four year sense I lived in your house. Even Dick Demorest you knew Dick? didn't know me; but I reckon that Mrs.
Whereof also the prophet Ezekiel speaks, in chap. xvi., addressing the city of Jerusalem: "this was the sin of Sodom thy sister, pride, fullness of bread, luxury and idleness, and that to the poor they did not reach out the hand, and have lifted themselves up, and have wrought such shameful cruelty before me that I have even destroyed them."
To account for the movement of the sun, he said God had His angels push it across the firmament and put it behind a mountain each night, and the next morning it was brought out on the other side. He met every objection by citations from Job, Genesis, Ezekiel, Ecclesiastes and the New Testament, and wound up with an anathema upon any or all who doubted or questioned in this matter of astronomy.
And so were fulfilled in them two laws of God. The one which Ezekiel lays down that the bad man's son who executes God's judgments and walks in God's statutes shall not die for the iniquity of his father, but surely live; and the other law which Moses lays down that God shews mercy unto thousands of generations, as I believe it means that is, to son after father, and son after father again, without end as long as they love Him and keep His commandments.
"And," added Ezekiel complacently, "should these forms not suffice the strength of our will we must supply what is lacking." And a rabbi said, "A little more or less guilty matters little, since once for all the public weal demands that he should be removed."
But there is one way of escape." "What is that?" "Loose these bonds and let me go before your Quaker friend comes down stairs, and your life will be safe, and your wife's." Ezekiel Mason shook his head feebly. "I don't dare to do it," he said. "Do as you please, but the time will come when you will be sorry that you refused. What are you afraid of? You are armed, while I have no weapon."
"I was only thinkin' what a skeer them innocent greenhorn passengers will get just ez they're snoozing off for the night, ten miles from here," responded his friend, with a chuckle. "Wonder ef anybody's goin' up from here besides that patent medicine softy." Ezekiel stopped as if petrified. "Ef the fools keep quiet they won't be hurt, for our men will be ready to chip in the moment of the attack.
"Your name's Ezekiel, isn't it?" "Yes," replied the boy; and then Esther was sure it was the Redeemed Son of whom her father had told her. "Are your mother and father well?" "Father's away travelling." Ezekiel's tone was a little impatient, his feet shuffled uneasily, itching to chase the flying hoop. "How's your aunt your aunt I forget her name." "Aunt Leah. She's gone to Liverpool." "What for?"
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