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Updated: May 14, 2025
On and on through the night sped the boat, until Myra and Ben could see the lights on the college hill. Here and there in the valley beyond, the lightning revealed a farmhouse, the inmates of which were quietly sleeping. Presently Ben spoke: "What hes Ezy been a-sayin'?" "Nothin' but that ye throwed him in the Hoghole, and tried to kill him, and that ye killed the gamekeeper."
Then, with a furtive glance about, he lifted the boy in his arms, and came toward Young, grunting under his burden. Young drew back into the overhanging branches. The squatter stumbled up the rocks, dragging the boy after him, and with a mighty effort lifted him high in the air, and tumbled the body into the Hoghole.
Again she must cross the dark Hoghole trestle alone on her way to the hut. But the singing in her heart when she left the Rectory took away the pain of her loneliness. Frederick Graves had said that she had done right in coming to him and asking prayers for "Daddy Skinner."
In another instant, Ben was back upon the shore at the reel, turning swiftly until silently it caught up with the other, just as the net dragged in the shallow waters, with bushels of flopping fish inside. Professor Young lowered himself into the Hoghole. It was necessary for him to use the greatest caution.
A conversation he had heard between the nurse and Professor Young had decided him to go home if he could, for Ezra knew that his sister loved the ugly fisherman who had tried to put him to death in the Hoghole. As he neared his cabin home, he saw the candle streaming its flickering ray upon the path that led to the rocks.
Through the frequent lightning he could plainly see Myra in the stern, holding to the child. It was all ending differently from what he had hoped. That he had killed the gamekeeper he knew well, but, when Ezra Longman had disappeared into the Hoghole, Ben thought it took from the earth the only witness of his deed.
Then Ezra came toward him, at the command of his father, Satisfied Longman. During that evening, Deforest Young was calling upon Deacon Hall. He refused the Deacon's invitation to row him to the city. "Thanks," said he, "but the night is delightful. I think I shall walk. I shall go by the shore and skirt to the tracks at the Hoghole."
Thrusting it into her blouse, she bounded out into the night, and raced up the railroad track almost to the Hoghole trestle before she stopped, satisfied that no one had seen her theft. Then, taking the book from her bosom, she kissed it reverently. "Them old fools ain't goin' to have every damn Bible in this here town. I air a right like them to this un."
Ben throwed me in the Hoghole, he did, but I know that ye loved him, and I comed." The boy staggered with weakness, and his sister threw an arm around him. "Ye air to come to Mammy," she urged. "Mammy loves ye, Ezy dear." "Wait," whispered the boy. "Ben Letts air to be arrested." "What?" The cry was sharp the words hurt. "Ben Letts air to be tooked to jail. It were him what killed the gamekeeper.
Teola kissed her babe over and over, drawing a small shawl about her shoulders, and picked a path out through the fish-bones on the floor. When Frederick returned to the boat, she was listlessly throwing small stones into the water. Tessibel watched Minister Graves' yacht steam by the Hoghole, across the head of the lake and into the inlet.
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