john meadows then come on come a thousand strong with the devil at your back � and then i ll beat yon i and for a moment the respectable man was almost grand a man rock standing earth and heaven mr meadows he turned and there was a word sir will is in the town in such a passion come to stop the wedding � he was taking a glass of ale at the and and you might hear him all over the yard what is he going to do � sir he has bought an uncommon heavy whip he was showing it in the yard this is for john meadows s back said he and i will give it him before the girl he has stolen from my brother if she takes a dog instead of a man it shall be a dog says he meadows rang the bell harness the mare to the four wheel chaise you know what to do � well i can guess but first get him told that i am always at at six o clock � but you won t go there this even it is never too late to mend j of course � why not � n t you afraid be � afraid of wiu why yon hare never looked at me i ao notice your eyes are always on the ground when i was eighteen one evening it was harvest home and all the folk had their wit and manners out i found a farmer s wife in a lane hemmed in by three great ignorant brutes that were for kissing her or some nonsense and she crying help and murder and ready to faint with fright it was a decent woman and a neighbor i interfered as thus i knocked the first fellow senseless on back with a blow before they knew of me and then the three were two i fought the two giving and taking for full ten minutes and then i got a chance and one went down i put my foot on his and kept him down for all he could do and over his body i fought the best man of the lot and him so that his whole was like a ball of when he was quite sick he ran one way and t other got up roaring and ran another and they had to send a for no dame gave me of her own accord what all the row was about and more than one and hearty ones too i assure you and had me in to supper and told her man and he shook my hand a good one why sir you don t mean to say the woman you fought for was mrs � but tell you it was and i had those two boys on my knee two pulling at my curly hair � why do i talk of these things o i remember it was to show you i am not a man that can be i am a much better man than i was at eighteen i won t be married in a black eye if i can help it but when i am once married here i stand against all comers and if you hear them or threaten you tell them that any sunday afternoon when there is nothing better to be done i throw my cap into the ring and fight all the that ever one down at on then turning quite and contemptuous all in a moment he said these are words and we have work on hand and even as he spoke he strode from the room after by at six o clock meadows and were walking arm in arm in the garden presently they saw a man advancing towards them with his right hand b ind him why it is wiu cried come to thank you � i think not by the look of him replied meadows coolly will you be so good as to take your hand from that man s arm i have got a word to say to him did more than seeing at once that mischief was coming she clung to william s right arm and while he ground his teeth with ineffectual rage for she was strong as her sex are strong for half a minute and to throw her off he must have been much with her than he chose to be � men came behind unobserved by all but meadows and captured him on the old judgment and having represented him as a violent man they literally laid the grasp of the law on him but i have got the money to it remonstrated william � pay it then but my money is at home give me two days i write to my and she will send it me the officers with a coarse laugh told him he must come with them meantime meadows whispered i ll pay it for him to morrow they took off william in meadows s four wheeled where are they taking him john � to the county jail o don t let them take him there can you not trust him � yes then why not pay it for him � but i don t carry money in my pocket and the bank is how unfortunate i � it is never too late to mend � but i hi send it over to morrow early and we will have him out o yes poor fellow the very first thing in the morning � yes the first thing � after we are married soon ter this meadows bade affectionately farewell and rode off to to buy his gloves and some presents for his bride on the road he overtook william going to jail leaned over his saddle as he by and said mrs meadows will send the money in to free you in the morning then on again as cool as 