The Wrong Man — page 93: what you’re looking at

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CURRENT RUMORS. 0S was afterward confirmed by an examination of the hunter’t ve, which was found to have been rifled of its tenant. “ Then Dudley may perhaps have escaped,” said the younget ~ mean. £ “I fear not. The inquiries immediately set on foot furnished __ Feason to believe that, with Sedley’s niece and slave, he had at- tempted to descend the river; and a party set out to overtake a him, and inform him that the confession of the’vld man had ex- 5 Oneruted him from all suspicion of the murder. They had nct : led far, however, when they were encountered, and _ Obliged to desist from their purpose, by one of those hurricanes a Which sometimes cover the Ohio with wrecks. From intelli- re ce that afterward reached Adrianopolis, it is too probable + Dudley and all with him perished in the storm.” « mer has nothing ever since been heard to change that opin- 7 * is “Nothing. There was‘at one time, a year or two after the escape, a sort of runror in the town that Dudley was still liv- ing ; but this, on bein tzaced, was not found to have any better foundation than certain obycure hints thrown out by the former Postmaster of Adrianopolis, whose wan D it was suspected, Sometimes Jed him to pry rather too closely into the contents of the letters which through his hands. It was said that & package from Dudley himseif had been received by Nathan Dodge ; ‘and that story gained additional currency from tke fact that, shortly after, carpenters were seen busy in constructing & neat pale round the spot where Sedley’s remains were buried. ut Dodge, who had just become permanently settled in the Village, denied that he had received any such letter; and, in- deed, a sufficient reason for his inclosing the old man’s grave might be found in the fact that he himself had been the unwit- ting means of bringing him to his tragical end. But see,” re- Sumed the speaker, after a moment’s pause, “ yonder comes @ ; at round the point; let us jos along, and we shall be in ~ time to see her come to at the landing.” The two riders turned their horses’ heads toward the town, am trotted forward at a gait too rapid to allow of much further versation. : A large crowd of persons Was assembled on the principal quay to witness the arrival of the steamboat. At the time of Our story, this wonderful invention, which has since exerted so Yast an ‘influence in the valley of the Mississippi. was of very recent date; and but a short period had elapsed singe the thun- _ ders of the first steamboat awakened the echoes of the Western ae The arrival of a boat was, therefore, still a matter of _ su interest to draw a large portion of the inhabitants to _ the water’s edge; and in the present instance, the graceful Senet of the vemel, ve he Grobe? by the town, and, round- ?. with an ample sweep, glided up to the wharf against * ¥ tay fo Lot «Be ? . * . SY Se Os 41 hg . Eomichooks.com *,