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country road, trah the dust, his chin sunk

in his breast and his hands clenched tight at his sides Now and then he

stopped and bitterly hurled a stone at a piping bird on a fence, or gay

Bob White in the fields At noon the patient figure was still waiting in

the corner of the court-house yard, er

But the flushed young man who had spoken thickly to her deserter drew an

envied roll of bankbills froan to bet with tipsy

caution, while the circle about the gamblers watched with fervid interest,

especially Mr Bardlock, Town Marshal

From far up Main Street came the cry "She's a-comin'! She's a-co only one of a dozen false

alarms, a thousand discussions took place over old-fashioned silver

timepieces as to when "she" was really due Schofields' Henry was much

appealed to as an arbiter in these discussions, froeneral sort of way; and thus Schofields'

ca on toward ten o'clock, whereas, in

the excite

forthwith to do, he did; and, in the elation of the ht

besides Miss Helen Sheras looking down on the

color from a second-story hither many an eye was upturned in

wonder--and she had the pleasure of seeing Schofields' ee on the steps

beneath her, when the bells had done, and heard the cheers (led by Mr

Martin) hich the laughing crowd greeted his appearance after the

performance of his feat