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Updated: July 14, 2025
He knew that further up the shore the fishermen were drawing their nets; he did not wish to advance upon them. Since knowing Tessibel Skinner, he had become more lenient toward the law-breakers. He turned into the forest at the side of the Hoghole, but the sound of voices brought him to a standstill. Ezra Longman was shouting out a threat. "Ye be a-tryin' to get Tess, and I tells ye to look out."
She was going for Daddy Skinner to bring him home to a shanty which she thought was clean, although the ragged curtain still flapped its tatters over a dirty window and the cobwebs hung listlessly from Daddy Skinner's unused net. But Tess had done her best, and her heart sang with delightful expectancy as she neared the dangerous open trestle which spanned the Hoghole gorge.
"Yep; but we go, all the same. I stays with ye, Ben!" He did not answer to this, nor did he ask a question then about the return of Ezra. He was satisfied that what he had supposed was the boy's wraith the disembodied spirit of the lad he had thrown into the Hoghole was the living Ezra Longman.
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