Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1905-10-07
Author Of the "ISs Stone-C Cutter
OF Lisbon." Etc
CHAPTER NIX
Continued.

docs not seem 70 notice me when
80 about her. but once or twice I have
Detected her eyeinS me slyly. with
glance that hss more in Il than like
ga. II she does that she suspects
We must ATTEND % her ere long"
Attend 70 her-what DO yoU meanT
-Nonsense; don't stare az me. Nancy.
II Il comes 70 4 poiu- where Luke
Hammond must swing by his neck. o.
old Fan die quickly in her bed-welL
FTc shall see"
You would do Il. Luke" said Nancy.
trembling.
so would you Nancy. Don't put
On the sQueamish with me. An enemy
IS an enemy. and yal know = But
time enough 70 think OF Fans case
after other and more important things.
wonder how & Is with our gallant
young friend. James G7eeneT
a tapping az the door starSled him
who can that - >" he said, and eau
6ously opened the door.
Old Fan. ghaStly and shaking. stood
before hin
I want 70 80 away SD Fan
creeping n and looking over her shDul-
der into the dark behind her.
Go swCyi CO wherey- cried Ham
nond-
A1ywhe-e-any-TTh oct OF this
house whlned the old creature. SIT
ding down by the blazing crate. and
craving herself into = heap. I can't
get VAIN I'm cold-cold. and such
noises
--.Nolses, You old fooly' sid Luke
''Ees-1olses- Tn old. Luke Ham
rnond. Tut 7 amt deaf nor blind Some
ching Amazing swful Sc going 20 happen
An tbs house. Down in ny room
hear The Evil one 90 work pounding
and hanms-oE and humping. know
hes coming Tor yCu. OF Ms EEker o.
ne Then 7 see JAMES Greene. eli
muddy and bloody. running al over
me house Hes after ne can't &c;
warn
Last night Fan said Luke. You
tainted with fright. and called out that
Nicholas DIAN Was your husband
~EhT said Fan. and Hammond
turned lbs back 70 avoid her terrible
glance
Yes. FGr. you said that, conuuued
Luke. with 4 paper before his face
Vow I knew g nan named Roland
Dunn-he was hanged twenty years
ago fCr murder
Was he screamed old Fan. 81
alive with Eiee. ~Ha- be was hanged.
--1Enred Tor murder. Thank God fo-
St Zee better now. 7 feel warn aI
oTe-- Ee was hanged, Good Elsi
i had been there 70 see = And yet
nus- have been my boy-a very bo,
Eun-he murdered his .ather-sam,
Ting. Put me- "a g mad-house- s.
te's hanreL Good Vow Il I coul.
be2- what became OF the c.rl-rry cir
%Golzod Duun's s.ster-she ran ava,
VII John Larks-wild John Marks
that robbed his father"
~shs was drowned a. sea- hear
khe dying espfession O. Roland Dunn.
said Luke. Turning and speaking Q
Nancy. IS . cid Fan was absen
--E0lSDd Dunn sad he drowned D;
Gister Ellen. Naocv."
did he, Good cried Fan n -
fect ecstasy. u knew they'd come 70
kad end
F-But they we've yeur children. o.
woman" sad Hammond. While Name
pretErded 70 be atso-btd IN = Lew
bapr.
my children. Were they5 xoi
der - they were rlOaned I'D Ia
@haking her shattered hrzin 70 and 2
with Z melancholy motion IF ths
Were ny children ought 70 cry al
Eeel bad about IT. Es1d she vacant
Then bercely-"ao, hey were not z
b1oren. Luke Hammond Taey We
q pair q lEnps- know i'll know 4,
don't say motor Old Fan knows
And II they were1't dead. and shou
meet theD-vhst 90 you think ]
DO"
--Ten me- Tc Ike 20 know 81
Hammond. carslessly.
Han put her hand sn her bosom a.
drew ont n great broad -blaced knit
Song. and curvfng % point
I'D cut their throatsr' she cris
Es0urishlng the knife. Il would. II
Aanged ne For they murdered z
husband my NichOlas-wbelps. wheli
I've carried this knife for & for year
Cor 5earzgA
Luke and Nancy exchanged glance
Fan." said Luke, you are crazy
Il know it, know it, mosped r.:
aiding her knife. Il wish wasn't.
wish I was stark raging mao--tbez
could not fed nny misery. m 20 bs
20 The kitchen nO7y. I fees better <sr