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Updated: June 19, 2025
When Ralph Willoby carried his senseless burden to the platform, where, so short a time before, the girl had been as merry as any of her playmates, Squire Travers determined upon one thing to form a searching party of all the boys to scour the woods from tree to stump and if possible run down the villain who had attacked Dorothy.
"Oh, I made all the trouble," replied Alice, "that is, Tavia and I made it. We were arrested " "Arrested!" repeated the father, incredulously. "Yes, indeed we were. And Mr. Willoby only stepped in to help us when he got in trouble." Mr. MacAllister talked earnestly to Ralph. Plainly both men were of the same opinion either Squire Sanders was crazy or he was too old and incompetent to hold office.
Among these were three negroes, Antoney, Isabell and "William theire Child Baptised." There was, too, the muster of the ancient planters John and Anne Laydon and their four girls, all Virginia "borne." The oldest of them was the first child born in the Colony. Nicolas Martiau was listed here, as was Ensign Thomas Willoby and Edward Waters.
Both boys were to sell papers to-day, for the Bugle was out, and Dorothy had told her brothers of the necessity for extra efforts to help with money matters. "You may go with one of the regular boys," Ralph Willoby instructed them. "He can tell you where you would be likely to get customers. Go into all the stores, of course, and look out for the mill hands, at noon time."
Travers said at the meeting, "was, in some way, connected with the Douglass family. There is money in the affair, however it may concern Burlock and Mrs. Douglass, and this stranger is after the cash." "But what in the world has these children to do with that?" asked the chairman. Ralph Willoby stood up. "It seems, Mr.
Looking about him hastily the man loosed his hold on her throat for an answer, but instead another shrill scream rent the air. "You little fool!" he muttered, "do you want me to throw you over?" But at that moment an answer came Ralph Willoby bounded through the grove and had Dorothy in his arms before she could realize he was there! Then with a look of baffled rage the man disappeared.
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