The Wrong Man — page 95: what you’re looking at

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“ CHARLES DUDLE} I DECLAha!” 97 with all he saw. Ashe came opposite the shopkeeper, the latte? @ied out: 3 is —e now, I vow, that’s strange. Why, Cato, it ain't you, . is it? __ “Ah, ha! Massa Dodge; how you do, Massa Dodge? I is berry glad to see you,’ responded the black; and, putting _ she trunks upon the ground, he exchanged with our honesi _ Iriend, Nathan, a cordial embrace. The peddler, stepped _ hack to the shep, turned the key in the door, and, joining -he 3 a walked forward with him at a quick pace toward te botel. __ “Charles Dudley, I declare!” exclaimed the former pedir but now prosperous dealer in tin-ware, as he approached tz? _ Stranger. . *~ , “Charles Dudley Elion, my old friend,” exclaimed the newly- . &trived gentleman, as he clasped the hand of Nathan. “ And _ this,” he added, turning to the lady at his side, “1s my wife, Lucy Darton Elton; and these are my boys, Enoch and Sedley, be added, in his hurried introduction. = The astonished Nathan could only say, “ Waal, I declare !" as he clasped the hands of all in his own. ~The crowd soon caught the news, and ere long 1¢ became known that the man tried and condemned for the murder of ed Overton, was again in their midst—as Elten, the law- yer; his renown had penetrated to the vigorous young city Which had been the scene of so much sorrow and joy to Charies Dudley, and the notabilities of Adrianopolis hastened to ied their respects to him. Members of the bar, judges, Civilians, came, but poor Sc was “ hurriedly called away, as Nathan eenatelh “dood Elton asked forthe wonderful ' ttle prosecutor, whose eloquence had consigned the poor Dudley __ to the block-house. __ In the crowd who flocked to the hotel came the shoemaker _ 4nd the tailor. Nathan was not slow to request them, in & _ significant way, to “retire to the shades of their dirty shops, at the same time pointing significantly to his own ponderous boot, which moved menacingly on the floor, as if anxious for @ little exercise at lifting, The shoemaker and the tailor dis- *Ppearcd as suddenly as shadows, sadder, if not wiser men. hathan had never ceased to be their evil genius; from the day Zhen their gossiping tongues had libeled Dudley, the honest _ ¥ankee had coos aee § them with the tribulation of his anger and _ _ The story of Dudley’s escape he soon had occaston to nar- _ fate. He not gone down theriver, on the night of the a he of the block-house, but up-stream, for his resi- _ ence was in Pittsburg, where his family agg see fame i were linked with that city’s prosperity and renown. eye ery ; Eomichooks.co