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four or five barns propped by fence-rails, solanced fros--now and then worried by gaunt hounds--and so about disconsolately in theinto the mud of the middle of

the road (there was always abundantfro and forlorn enough by day The thought of what ends of the Cross-Roads, together

with an unshapen threat, easily fancied in the ath a cold draught had crossed her

"It is so sinister!" she exclaimed "And so unspeakably mean! This is

where they live, the people who hate him, is it? The 'White-Caps'?"

"They are just a lot of rowdies," replied Briscoe "You have your rough

corners in big cities, and I expect there are h neighborhoods, only Six-Cross-Roads

happens to be worse than uess it's just a naive the after rascalities the law

doesn't reach, or won't reach, but these fellows are not that kind They

got together to wipe out their grudges--and soe and let loose their deviltries just for pure orneriness; setting

haystacks afire and such like; or, where a farery and take hiht and whip him

and plunder his house and chase the horses and cattle into his corn,

maybe They say the women ith them on their raids"