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The court-house bell ringing in the night! No hesitating stroke of

Schofields' Henry, no uncertain touch, was on the rope A loud, wild,

hurried cla!

clang! clang! that struck clear in to the spine

The court-house bell had tolled for the death of Morton, of Garfield, of

Hendricks; had rung joy-peals of peace after the war and after political

ca now only three times; once

when Hibbard's mill burned, once when Webb Landis killed Sep Bardlock and

intrenched himself in the luh and through, and once when the Rouen accommodation was

wrecked within twenty yards of the station

Why was the bell ringing now? Men and woroped to s--no redon Its loud alarly intoto the rapidA horse, wildly ridden, splashed

through the town There were shouts; voices called hoarsely Laed fro their braces on their shoulders as they ran out of doors

Questions were shouted into the dimness

Then the neent over the town

It was cried froate,

and reached the furthermost confines Runners shouted it as they sped by;

boys panted it, breathless; wo chairls