Out of a Labyrinth
hlegmatic, oft-stopping, slow going, accomodation train
a successful issue, this must be a case of waiting, of wit agains
influence of a good cigar, had blunted the edge of my self-disgust; my arm was quite easy, only wa
tle room for effective thought in this case. My future movements were a foregone conclusion. So I rested
d looked out, I saw that we were moving along the outskirts of a pre
kling eye. Certainly it was not a prepossessing countenance, but, just as certainly, it was an honest one. He was
le and stir behind me, and a man who had been lounging, silent, moveless,
top right here. Ha
exclamations of surprise and pleasure, not unmixed with profanity. Evidently t
sking, the other answering, questions concerning a certain village, which
its business; of births, and deaths, and marriages. It was very uninteresting; I was beginning to feel bored, and was meditating a change of seat,
ch ones it's well enough, but the poor-well, the onl
the r
poor. 'Nu
the old lot there ye
d pi
hen r
a still deeper
ines, too,
lightning, man, that's baby talk; there's more deviltry going o
tell me. What's
oser; but there's a good many in Trafton that wouldn't believe you if you told
ganize
s,
pretty strong for Traf
with Yanke
s some of the particulars. What makes you
Five years ago a horse thief had not been heard of in Trafton for Lord knows how long, until one night Judge Barnes lost a valuable span, taken from his stable, slick and clean, and never heard of aft
whistle, and I, supposed by them to be as
onished man, "you f
ve Trafton between two da
d Lo
s silence and then
we can beat the city
can beat the city itself
lars,
zed very freely. "And cute ones; they never
's t
man draws money from the bank, or sells cattle, they know that. And if some of our farmers, who like to go
olks suspect of d
spicions and being on the watch; but very few dare breathe a nam
t some one, or
o lay myself liable to an action for dama
tonite took leave of his friend, and quitted the train at a station, not more
ation, and now I gave no thought to the fate of Mamie Rutger and 'Squire E
o me what the great Hippodrome is to small boys. I wanted to see it; I
on man, had revealed to my practiced ear a more comp
must be the founder of this system! How secure he must be in his place, and his scheming, and what a foem
was quite as deep, and the solution of it of more vital importance. But-Grovelan
n, hours later, we ran into the city, Groveland wa