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A group of men stood on the step, the faint light of the room picking out face after face that she recognized Sheriff Munn; Jim Barker, who kept the grocery in the village; Cottrell Hampstead, who lived in the next house below them; young Dick Roamer, Munn's deputy; and several strangers. "Well?" she asked ungraciously. "We want to see Brenner!" one of them said. She stepped back.
How small and insignificant seemed our tiny God's Acre, as the few mourners crept into it behind Minnie Munn's body; the gravestones like petty dots upon the teeming earth, dwarfed by the overshadowing tenements, as if death were but an incident in the vast, unhasting, continuous sweep of life, as indeed perhaps it is.
He attended fifty cases without suffering, but as soon as he had bent over Hendry Munn's youngest boys, who both had it, he said, "I'm smitted," and went home to die. You may be sure that Gavin proved a good friend to Micah Dow. I have the piece of slate on which Rob proved himself a good friend to Gavin; it was in his pocket when we found the body.
Allen, and see if he couldn't cure her up in a day, the way he did last fall. Arabella had another mysterious source of forgetfulness. When Susan's watchfulness kept her from visiting Mrs. Munn's lumber room, she would slip away into her spare bedroom, shut the door, and taking out two letters from her top drawer, would sit down and read them again and again.
"It's likely, ain't it, that I'd change into shoes as wet as these?" "Those tracks are Mart's!" Olga reiterated hysterically. "They lead into your son's room, Mrs. Brenner. And we find your ax not far from your door, just where the path starts for the hill." Munn's eyes were grave. The old woman in the corner began to whimper, "Blood and trouble! Blood and trouble all my days! Red on his hands!
But Martin's generosity only made the other's ingratitude the blacker. Meanwhile, the first of June was fast approaching, and as yet no one had a suspicion of the treasure hidden away in Mrs. Munn's lumber room. Even that lady's talent for keeping a secret might have been rather severely taxed had it not been that those around her were absorbed in other interests.
Without hesitation Mart lifted one heavy boot and then the other for Munn's inspection. The other silent men leaned forward to examine them. "Nothing but pieces of seaweed," said Cottrell Hampstead. Munn eyed them. Then he turned to look at the floor. "Those are about the size of your tracks, Brenner. But they were made in red clay. How do you account for that?"
But they did so want to come, all of them, and Hazelbridge is not nearly as far as Canterbury, really, so even Martha was allowed to put on her things I mean her collar and come with us. She walks slowly, but we had the day before us so there was no extra hurry. At Hazelbridge we went into B. Munn's grocer's shop and asked for ginger-beer to drink.
Munn's jumping Bible, and of a drunken man punished for his intemperance by being lifted off his legs by an invisible hand! Cotton Mather's marvellous account of his witch experiments in New England delighted him. He had it republished, declaring that "he must be an obstinate Sadducee who doubted it."
Cases were not wanting in which he realized this for himself, but as a rule he had to be told of it. There were a few instances of weddings among the Auld Lichts that did not take place on Friday. Betsy Munn's brother thought to assert his two coal-carts, about which he was sinfully puffed up, by getting married early in the week; but he was a pragmatical feckless body, Jamie.
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