The Wrong Man — page 81: what you’re looking at

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> Were, it was not dispatched without a considerable delay. He - @t length reissued from the block-honse, closed the door care- fally, and turned to pursue his way home. Several times he paused, and looked at the bundle (which he still carried) with s perplexed air, as if his mind were grappling with some sub- > ij could not altegether master. All ut once, a gleam of in- -- ee lighted up his black features, denoting that he had 3 m a lucky thought. Hah! dat’s it—dat’s it!” said he, speaking to himself; “ dat . Will be sure to t'row ‘em on de wrong seent, I'll derange it all aov, and dey shall see de nigger knows a ting or two, as well As de res’ of ‘em.” That night, an hour or two after Sedley and his niece had retired to rest, the door of a smaller log-cabin, which answered been seen to open, and honest Cato, stealing cautiously ont, once more took his way toward the village. The moon was par- tially hid behind a cluster of clouds, now scadding back before a pleasant western breeze to the quarter whence they had lately issued. Enough light shone through the intervals, however, to have betrayed the motions of the negro, had any eye been Watching him. In one hand he carried a spade, and in the Other the same bundle with which he had lately returned from the block-louse. EN te UR back, and he dragged his limbs after him in a way that showed his expedition been attended with fatigue. But as he knelt down at the kitchen-héarth, and blew the smoldering embers into a flame, the red light that fell on his countenance revealed a pleased and somewhat consequential expression, as if he had vatisfactorily accomplished the object of his expedition. 3 gh the whole of the following re forpe was absent cabin. Before he | he held a long conver- sation with Lucy, and gave a number of minute and partic: __» Ular orders to Cato, which, to impress them more certainly _. & his amr? Batis nom several times. During his = dbeence, Lucy and the black bustled about with a degree of é activity which presented quite a contrast with the usualy ‘serene manners of the one, and the somewhat grotesqne motions of the other, ‘The portraits which had graced the - _pude walis were taken down, the books» removed from the hanging shelves, and sandry boxes and bundles scattered i? ound the room indicated preparations for some unusual step. old ‘cat, which had long been the privileged tenant of the te ses .erg um i, q ES s” ~~ around, as if its instinct inform bustle. ‘ ‘ - a . - ~ ee -. spey-corner, moved mewing und fidgeting about, and cast — sige D formed it of the mean- t the arrangements_were all completed, and while m1 himself iq removing the packages to some x 7 comichooks;com 9 oo he tee SS on the purpose of a kitchen to the main structure, might have © The night was fast melting into morning, when he came — Caer A = Fi