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Updated: June 3, 2025
Could he, without a single witness, prove that it was an accident? The sinister figure of Jake Hibbard rose before him, and made him feel helpless and frightened. The future looked black. "But I done right," he tried to console himself by saying. "I done right." Better late than never, to be sure; but if genuine comfort in a good deed is sought, it is best to act at once. Mr.
She'll come out all right, and she won't come out hand in hand with Hibbard Gaylord. You see if she does." Miss Maggie shook her head and sighed. You don't know Jane. Jane will never give up. She'll be quiet, but she'll be firm. With one hand she'll keep Gray away, and with the other she'll push Gaylord forward. Even Mellicent herself won't know how it's done.
She did not like Jane's maneuvers to bring Mellicent and Hibbard Gaylord into each other's company nor the way Mr. Smith maneuvered to get Mellicent for himself. Of all these, except the very last, Miss Maggie talked with Mr. Smith on the way home yet it was the very last that was uppermost in her mind, except perhaps, Fred.
It had been the effort of Milton Hibbard to work up the sentiment of those who had been so eagerly following the trial, in favor of his client's cause, before bringing on the final coup of the testimony of the Swede, and, last of all, that of Betty Ballard.
The clock occupying the center of the mantelpiece alone gave evidence of life. It had been wound for the wedding and had not yet run down. Its tick-tick came faint enough, however, through the darkness, as if it too had lost heart and would soon lapse into the deadly quiet of its ghostly surroundings. "It's it's funeral-like," chattered Hibbard.
He was gazing forlornly in at the window of Upham's drugstore, where some half-dozen harmonicas were displayed, and wondering if Jim would be allowed to play one in his dungeon cell, when Hibbard spoke to him. He drew the lawyer aside, and, peering closely into his face with anxious eyes exaggerated by his spectacles, said insinuatingly:
Seraine talked to her of her mission and what she desired to accomplish; also asked her to keep a watchful eye on Henry, and when the time should come for an exchange of prisoners to remind Hibbard of Henry as one to be sent away, provided she could arrange the matter.
"I'm glad he realized it," observed Miss Maggie grimly. "I suppose the Gaylord young people went, too." "Hibbard did, but Pearl doesn't go till next week. She isn't in the same school with Bess, you know. It's even grander than Bess's they say. Hattie wants to get Bess into it next year. Oh, I forgot; we've got to call her 'Elizabeth' now. Did you know that?" Miss Maggie shook her head.
I therefore object to the appearance of Mr. Hibbard as counsel in this case, and to his taking any part in this trial. If the facts I have stated are questioned, I will ask Elder Craigmile to be sworn." The court replied: "I shall assume the facts to be as stated by you unless the counsel on the other side dissent from such a statement.
Then, while the people cheered and stamped and shouted the names of the two young men, and while women wept and turned to each other, clasping hands and laughing through tears, Milton Hibbard stooped and spoke in the Elder's ear. "I throw up the case, man, and rejoice with you and the whole town. Go down there and take back your son."
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