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The legal authority claimed by Simon Halpen was not recognized in the Grants and did the Hardings put themselves in Halpen's power by agreeing to let the New York authorities arbitrate the matter, they would lose all that they had toiled and suffered for during the past ten years.
By the time the snow lay deep upon the earth the Hardings were once more comfortable. The boys did very little trapping and hunting that winter of '72-'73 for they could not attend to traps set very far from the ox-bow, and the Walloomscoik country was becoming scarce of game.
"What's going on?" he asked, anxiously. "Who's that out yonder?" nodding again toward the creek. "Umph! Men hire Crow Wing to paddle canoe. They go to Hardings'." "Yorkers!" exclaimed Bolderwood. But the Indian youth said no more and quickly disappeared in the bushes which overhung the creek.
The remainder of that week the seance to be held in the light keeper's cottage on Saturday evening was much talked about. The devout, including the Beebes, the Hardings and the Blounts were quite excited about it. The scoffers derided and waxed sarcastic. Of these scoffers the most outspoken was Horatio Pulcifer. He declared that the whole fool business made him tired.
I don't know whether my laugh sounded natural or not, but I cheerfully could have murdered both of them. In those brief minutes I learned practically all I now know concerning the departure and the whereabouts of the Hardings and Carter. There was a lot of mail awaiting me, and I opened letter after letter hoping against hope that there might be one from Miss Harding. There was none.
And he was glad that 'Siah Bolderwood had promised to remain at or near the Hardings' home while he, Enoch, was at Westminster. Under Lot's advice the two boys said nothing of the little scene at the inn and the next morning Mr. Lewis went with other stable men of the town to call upon the justices who would preside at the court when it met.
Besides leading her children in the work of the farm, Mistress Harding paid more attention to their education than most parents of the settlement could. There was a school in Bennington during the winter months; but it was too far away for any of the Hardings to attend. But the widow had been a school-teacher before her marriage and she had brought some books with her from her old home.
He was certain that the man he had seen beside the campfire in the wood, and whom Crow Wing seemed to befriend, was the Yorker who, twice before, had tried to drive the Hardings from their home. But neither the man nor the Indian youth appeared in the neighborhood as the summer waned and the autumn harvests approached.
Yet in the midst of her desolation, child as she was, she was sustained and comforted by the thought that she was suffering for doing right. When Ida failed to return on the appointed day, the Hardings, though disappointed, did not think it strange. "If I were her mother," said the cooper's wife, "and had been parted from her for so long, I should want to keep her as long as I could.
Miss Harding is still in the city, and I have added nothing to this diary for several days. She is expected back to-morrow. I do not know how to account for it, but since the coming of the Hardings my game has fallen off several strokes. It seems impossible for me to concentrate my mind on my shots.
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