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prove who owned the .linen-tnere sfe
many makes, and mayhap Ezra noticed

| Drove who owned tQ0 -nnen-Lnero are
many makes, and mayhap Ezra noticed
| the linen"
II had not time. I know that Marshal
| Hobbs looked at it long, and sighed, say
| ing-there was more than me heard him
-fand it may be Martin Lees shroud.
Il see no reason to doubt it." said
Grizzle. Nor that his people have made
way with him-if he did not make away
| with himself, knowing that if ever he
was caught, he would hang for killing
| our son."
Every one in Salem knows that, the
apprentice said, quickly.
1And what do they say, Ezra?"
There is no one in Salem does not
know how Martin Lee lodged here, and
has been made away with because Of the
disgrace hanging would bring on John
Lee and all the name" -
This was said 50 gibly that it produced
the effect the apprentice desired. AS if
to corroborate his tale, Giles Ellis en-
| tered the inn, and soon was installed in
the seat he occupied when sampling the
liquors the inn boasted. To him Ezra
Easily turned.
1t must be you have heard the news?"
"Aye-if SO be it is the shroud you
speak of. And have seen it. And it
may not be long till we know where Mar
tin was buried. One thing is sure-jus-
tice has been cheated"
Giles Ellis looked at the landlord and
his wife. The landlord shook his head,
as much as to say justice had been cheat
ed beyond his power to estimate it. But
Grizzle, as usual. found her tongue.
you have seen Martin Lees shroud with
Dorothea and Janet Lee. Since both
have confessed carrying meat and drink
to Martin Lee, and he is nowhere to be
found-but, instead. now they have
found his shroud-why, 'tis plain they
will both hang"
To which Giles Ellis assented, as he
drank his wine slowly.
And can any one see this shroud?"
Daniel Meade asked.
mo one has been denied. Scores have
seen it," Giles Ellis replied, as he looked
at the apprentice and the customers on
the other side of the room. The Mar
shall has it by him."
so? Then it is very bad, as Grlzzle
has said, for Mistress Lee and Janet"
Ave; unless their friends bestir them
selves, there's enough in tho shroud to
hang them. Many have hanged on less
grounds" Giles Ellis said, severely.
"'Tis we'll the law takes them in hand, or
honest people would not have room to
live."
TO which the two customers opposite
him assented, with many mods, as they
finished their rum and settled back in
their seats to hear all that was to follow.
There was nothing new. Giles Ellis
related in his turn how Indian Joe had
found the shroud, how he had fastened
to the Marshal of Salem with it, and how
Samuel Hobbs, looking at it, had said
that it was Martin Lees shroud. The
tale was so interesting that the custom
ers ordered more rum and water, as they
listened to the apprentice supplying de-
tails Giles Ellis omitted.
And so the finding of Martin Lees
shroud was told over and over again half
score of times before the inn was
closed that night, for the customers who
had heard Ezra Easty and Giles Ellis
relate it, in their turn related it to
others.
Salem fell asleep that night, after lis
tening to as many versions Of the finding
of Martin Lees shroud as human inven-
tion could supply in six or eight hours.
Of one thing there was no doubt. A
shroud had been found in hollow tree
by Indian Joe, and if it was not Martin
Lees, whose, then. was it2
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