. The Hoosier schoolmaster; a novel . e onlyGerman in the whole region was called), Ralphsexcited nerves had cause for tremor. At one mo-ment he would resolve to have Hannah at all the next his conscience would question the right-fulness of the conclusion. Then he would makeup his mind to tell all he knew about the if he told his suspicions about Small, nobodywould believe him. And if he told about PeteJones, he really could tell only enough to bringvengeance upon himself. And how could he ex-plain his own walk through the pasture and down OMINOUS REMARKS OF MR. JONES. 71
. The Hoosier schoolmaster; a novel . e onlyGerman in the whole region was called), Ralphsexcited nerves had cause for tremor. At one mo-ment he would resolve to have Hannah at all the next his conscience would question the right-fulness of the conclusion. Then he would makeup his mind to tell all he knew about the if he told his suspicions about Small, nobodywould believe him. And if he told about PeteJones, he really could tell only enough to bringvengeance upon himself. And how could he ex-plain his own walk through the pasture and down OMINOUS REMARKS OF MR. JONES. 71 the road ? What business had he being out of bedat two oclock in the morning? The circumstantialevidence was quite as strong against him as againstthe man on the horse with the white left forefootand the white nose. Suspicion might fasten onhimself. And then what would be the effect on hisprospects ? On the people at Lewisburg ? On Han-nah ? It is astonishing how much instruction andcomfort there is in a bulldog. This slender school-. BULL. master, who had been all his life repressing theanimal and developing the finer nature, now founda need of just what the bulldog had. And so, withthe thought of how his friend the dog would fight ina desperate strait, he determined to take hold ofhis difficulties as Bull took hold of the questions he postponed for careful for the present he set his teeth together in adesperate, bulldog fashion, and he set his feet downslowly, positively, bulldoggedly. After a wretchedsupper at Pete Joness he found himself at the spell- 72 THE HOOSIER SCHOOL-MASTER. ing-school, which, owing to the absence of Hannah,and the excitement about the burglary, was a dullaffair. Half the evening was spent in talking inlittle knots. Pete Jones had taken the afflicted Dutchman under his own particular supervision. I spose, said Pete, that them air fellers whatrobbed your house must a come down from JinkinsRun. Theyre the blamedest set up ther
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