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Updated: June 24, 2025
"It's a term applied to most of the town of Partridgeville in the northern part of the county an inaccessible district back in the mountains peopled with gone-to-seed stock and half-civilized illiterates who only get into the news when they load up with squirrel whisky and start a programme of progressive hell. Ruggam was the local blacksmith." "What's a kitchen-dance?"
"Ordinarily a kitchen-dance is harmless enough. But the Lost Nation folks use it as an excuse for a debauch. They gather in some sizable shack, set the stove out into the yard, soak themselves in aromatic spirits of deviltry and dance from Saturday night until Monday noon " "And this Ruggam killed a sheriff at one of them?" "He got into a brawl with another chap about his wife.
He killed Mart Wiley, a deputy sheriff, at a Lost Nation kitchen-dance two years ago." "Where's the Lost Nation?"
"Special dispatch ... Wyndgate, Vermont, October 27th ... Ready?" The editor of our paper answered in the affirmative. The rest of us grouped anxiously around his chair. Stewart proceeded: "'Hapwell Ruggam, serving a life-sentence for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Martin Wiley at a Lost Nation kitchen-dance two years ago, killed Jacob Lambwell, his guard, and escaped from prison at noon to-day.
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