He has had a spite against me ever since I lent him
that hundred dollars. I don't know why, for I've stood up for him when
others would have run him out of the place. He intended me to come here
and find every animal lying dead.
"He even had a rope around the pig's neck. Harry, my boy, let us go and
look after them again. I love a dumb brute too well to let it suffer,
but in this case I'd give two hundred dollars more if I could make them
live and have Barron know it."
They left the room, and Miss Laura sat turning the sheet of paper over
and over, with a kind of horror in her face. It was a very dirty piece
of paper, but by-and-by she made a discovery. She took it in her hand
and went out-doors. I am sure that the poor horse lying on the grass
knew her. He lifted his head, and what a different expression he had now
that his hunger had been partly satisfied. Miss Laura stroked and patted
him, then she called to her cousin, "Harry, will you look at this?"
He took the paper from her, and said: "That is a crest shining through
the different strata of dust and grime, probably that of his own family
We'll have it cleaned, and it will enable us to track the villain.
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