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Updated: May 14, 2025
"I come inter this house," declared Sim Squires, "at Bas Rowlett's behest, ter spy on Parish Thornton an' I j'ined ther riders fer ther same reason but I'm done with lyin' now! Hit's Bas Rowlett thet made a fool of me an' seeks ter make convicts outen you." He paused; then wheeling once more he walked slowly, step by step, to where Bas Rowlett stood cowering.
There the speaker broke off and shrugged his powerful shoulders. A brief silence fell, and through the sunflecks and the deep woodland shadows came the little voices that were all of peace, but into Rowlett's eyes flashed a sudden-born ghost of suspicion. "How come you ter git possession of ther place hyar?" he demanded. "Ye didn't heir hit from Old Burrell Thornton's folks, did ye?"
There he paused in meditation, summing up in his mind the many things that had happened since then, and the sinister strands of Rowlett's influence that ran defacingly through the whole pattern. Below that shelf of rock, kissed by the long shadow of the mountain, lay the valley with its loop of quietly moving water.
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