We'll let him go. The Lord looks out for fellows like that."
"We will look out for him if he ever comes back to Riverdale," said Mr.
Harry, quietly. All through the village, and in the country it was known
what a dastardly trick the Englishman had played, and he would have been
roughly handled if he had dared return.
Months passed away, and nothing was heard of him. Late in the autumn,
after Miss Laura and I had gone back to Fairport, Mrs. Wood wrote her
about the end of the Englishman. Some Riverdale lads were beating about
the woods, looking for lost cattle, and in their wanderings came to an
old stone quarry that had been disused for years. On one side there was
a smooth wall of rock, many feet deep. On the other the ground and rock
were broken away, and it was quite easy to get into it. They found that
by some means or other, one of their cows had fallen into this deep pit,
over the steep side of the quarry. Of course, the poor creature was
dead, but the boys, out of curiosity, resolved to go down and look at
her. They clambered down, found the cow, and, to their horror and
amazement, discovered near-by the skeleton of a man.
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