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Updated: April 30, 2025
As she hurled herself alone at the oncoming torrent, they sped from the door unnoticed, sprang over the fence, and reached the open lots to the west before they were seen by Willetts from the roof. "Don't let 'em fool you!" he shouted. "Look to I your left! There they go! Don't let 'em get away." The Cross-Readers were running across the field.
Willetts had paled, but he showed boldness. For an instant Shefford studied the smooth face, with its sloping lines, the dark, wine-colored eyes. "Willetts, I understand you've maligned me to Bishop Kane and others," began Shefford, curtly. "I called you an atheist," returned the missionary, harshly. "Yes, and more than that. And I told these men WHY you vented your spite on me."
It would be impossible to say by what a narrow squeak he saved himself in this dare-devil maneuver. His one chance lay in lightning agility. Yet, first and last, it was an act of fine and desperate recklessness the recklessness of a soul possessed and set on one dominating purpose. This was Hervey Willetts all over.
"And what are you?" cried Willetts, in shrill fury. "I've heard all about you. Heretic! Atheist! Driven from your Church! Hated and scorned for your blasphemy!" Then he gave way to ungovernable rage, and cursed Shefford as a religious fanatic might have cursed the most debased sinners. Shefford heard with the blood beating, strangling the pulse in his ears.
There was a sound of wheels; the buckboard drew up at the gate, and Helen, returning from her evening's labor, jumped out lightly, and ran around to pat the horses' heads. "Thank you so much, Mr. Willetts," she said to the driver. "I know you will handle the two delegates you are to look after as well as you do the judge's team; and you ought to, you know, because the delegates are men.
Before he was answered, Eph Watts looked at Briscoe keenly and then turned to Lige Willetts and whispered: "Get on your horse, ride in, and ring the court-house bell like the devil. Do as I say!" Tears stood in the judge's eyes. "It is so," he said, solemnly. "He speaks the truth. I didn't mean to tell it to-day, but somehow " He paused. "The hounds!" he cried. "They deserve it!
Temple continued, "the testimony of Tom Slade himself that Hervey Willetts climbed a tree and in a daring manner saved a bird and its nest from the ruthless assault of an eagle. That bird's nest, with its little occupant, hangs now in the elm tree at the corner of the pavilion." "Thus Hervey Willetts won the animal first aid badge without so much as knowing it.
"Yes!" answered the man on horseback. "Wiley, he left about half-past nine just before the storm. They think he went west." "Much obliged. Willetts is so upset he isn't sure of anything." "Wiley!" The old man's voice shook; Minnie began to cry aloud. The horseman wheeled about and turned his animal's head toward town. "Wiley!" "Yes." "Wiley, they haven't you don't think they've got him?"
"There's Monty Willetts, who was so crazy about Veronica. No one has seen him for a week. Couldn't you ask if anything serious has happened to him?" I expect her idea was for me to put him through the third degree so subtle he wouldn't suspect. Well, leavin' Sadie gazin' into a jew'lry window, I overhauls him and does my best.
The face of the missionary turned purple as Shefford forced his head back over the rail. "I'll kill you, man," repeated Shefford, piercingly. "Do you want to go to your God unprepared? Say you made love to Glen Naspa tell that you persuaded her to leave her home. Quick!" Willetts raised a shaking hand and then Shefford relaxed the paralyzing grip and let his head come forward.
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