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Updated: May 10, 2025
Before this it had been the work of the Lord that he had been doing; but now he was only serving the Wygants and the Hickmans apparently one always served them, no matter where or how he worked in this world. "You are late," said old Mr. Jacobs, the sexton, when he arrived. "Yes, sir," said Samuel. "Dr. Vince left word that he wanted to see you as soon as you came." The boy's heart gave a leap.
The end of the cook-room extended back into a grove of trees which surrounded the mansion, and which had given Deck his first suggestion of his method of future operations. Taking the two Hickmans with them, the four went through a window into the grove. The building containing the kitchen concealed them from the view of the ruffians, if any of them went to the windows.
They knew what they were facing at this moment; not only Chief McCullagh with his policemen and their clubs; not only the subsidized "Express" with its falsehoods and ridicule: but all the political and business power of the Hickmans and Wygants. They were facing arrest and imprisonment, humiliation and disgrace perhaps ruin and starvation. Only in this way could they reach the ears of the people.
I hurried by the cottage of the misborn Neill boys. It was empty, and they were grown into fat, lazy farm-hands. I saw the home of the Hickmans, but Albert, with his stooping shoulders, had passed from the world.
I hurried by the cottage of the misborn Neill boys. It was empty, and they were grown into fat, lazy farm hands. I saw the home of the Hickmans, but Albert, with his stooping shoulders, had passed from the world.
The two Hickmans there were riflemen, and Deck did not believe it would be possible for either of them to fire without killing or wounding his man; but he heard but one shot, and probably four of the land pirates were still living. Deck waited some time for the sound of another shot, but in vain.
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