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The head-constable was sent for, and after examining the relics of the case, he came to the same conclusion at which the rest had already arrived, namely, that the watch could not have been stolen by an ordinary footpad, but by some personal enemy of the schoolmaster's, whose object was not plunder, but annoyance and injury. To the population of Warley this solution was a very agreeable one.
When the jurors filed back into the box the court came to attention and listened to the verdict. Jim and Charity were dazed as if some footpad had struck them over the head with a slingshot. Kedzie was hysterical with relief. She had suffered, too, throughout the trial. And now she had been vindicated. She went to the jury and she shook hands with each member and thanked him.
"Ha! a footpad?" "Yes." The sheriff sprang to the side of the tramp, who was trying to rise, and in a trice his wrists were confined by handcuffs. "I think I know you, Mike Frost," he said. "You are up to your old tricks. When did you come out of Sing Sing?" "Three weeks since," answered the tramp, sullenly. "They want you back there. Come along with me!"
"I shouldn't have thought it so, but money is not what I want. Mrs. Gregg is proud, and it is hard to help her in that way. Couldn't you give him work of some kind just a little post in a corner?" "My dear child, the little posts in the corner are just the ones where honesty is essential. A footpad doesn't wait under a street-lamp!
"Nothing like it," Dick protested, growing redder still. "I was ashamed over having let the footpad get away." "What? And he twice your size?" gasped Thompson. "Fellows, what do you think of the modest cheek of this freshie! Ashamed because he couldn't bag a full-sized thug!" "That kid's the mustard!" broke in another first classman, approvingly. "That's what he is!" came from others.
Don Fernando parted the officer and Don Quixote, and to their mutual contentment made them relax the grip by which they held, the one the coat collar, the other the throat of his adversary; for all this, however, the officers did not cease to demand their prisoner and call on them to help, and deliver him over bound into their power, as was required for the service of the King and of the Holy Brotherhood, on whose behalf they again demanded aid and assistance to effect the capture of this robber and footpad of the highways.
"I understand, sir; and I always goes with the gemman who behaves most like a gemman." Here a loud halloo was heard close by the horses' heads. "Good Heavens, if that is a footpad!" said Mr. Spencer, shaking violently. "Lord, sir, I have my barkers with me. Who's there?" The barouche stopped a man came to the window.
When his money was stolen, there seemed nothing to do, as he said to Michael Clones, but to become a footpad or a pirate. Then the stormy doors of the navy had opened wide to him; and as many a man is tempted into folly or crime by tempestuous nature, so he, forlorn, spiritually unkempt, but physically and mentally well-composed, in a spirit of bravado, flung himself into the bowels of the fleet.
I think I could manage, somehow, to make a shift with all them dratted things leastways if you was to give me a 'and up with them at the start. 'And I would see you far enough before I allowed you to try, Mr. Rowley! I cried. 'Why, you would be quite defenceless! A footpad that was an infant child could rob you. And I should probably come driving by to find you in a ditch with your throat cut.
Once he returned from New Orleans, whither he had gone to sell his cotton, with the story that he had been knocked senseless and robbed of his wallet, and in proof of this he produced a newspaper account of the midnight outrage, and exhibited a wound on the head, inflicted by the bludgeon of the footpad.
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