. The Hoosier school-master : a novel . the robbery at the Dutchmans (as the only German --in the whole region was called), Ralphsexcited nerves had cause for tremor. At one moment hewould resolve to have Hannah at all costs. In the next hisconscience would question the rightfulness of the he would make up his mind to tell all that he knewabout the robbery. But if he told his suspicions about Small,nobody would believe him. And if he told about Pete Jones,he really could tell only enough to bring vengeance upon him-self. And how could he explain his own walk through thepasture
. The Hoosier school-master : a novel . the robbery at the Dutchmans (as the only German --in the whole region was called), Ralphsexcited nerves had cause for tremor. At one moment hewould resolve to have Hannah at all costs. In the next hisconscience would question the rightfulness of the he would make up his mind to tell all that he knewabout the robbery. But if he told his suspicions about Small,nobody would believe him. And if he told about Pete Jones,he really could tell only enough to bring vengeance upon him-self. And how could he explain his own walk through thepasture and down the road? What business had he being out OMINOUS REMARKS OF MR. JONES. 75 of bed at two oclock in the morning? The circumstantial evi- *j dence was quite as strong against him as against the man onthe horse with the white left forefoot and the white might fasten on himself. And then what would bethe effect on his prospects? On the people at Lewisburg? OnHannah? It is astonishing how much instruction and comfort. BULL. there is in a bull-dog. This slender school-master, who hadbeen all his life repressing the animal and developing the finernature, now found a need of just what the bull-dog had. Andso, with the thought of how his friend the dog would fight hia desperate strait, he determined to take hold of his difficultiesas Bull took hold of the raccoon. Moral questions he post-poned for careful decision. But for the present he set his teethtogether in a desperate, bull-dog fashion, and he set his feetdown slowly, positively, bull-doggedly. After a wretched sup-per at Pete Joness he found himself at the spelling-school, 76 THE IIOOSIER SCHOOL-MABTEK. which, owing to the absence of Hannah and the excitement <o about the burglary, was a dull affair. Half the evening wasspent in talking hi little knots. Pete Jones had taken the af-flicted Dutchman under his own particular supervision. I spose, said Pete, that them air fellers what robbedyour house must a
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