The people stood still just long
enough to verify the fact with a glance, that holy time had begun, and
instantly the green was covered with men and boys swiftly seeking
shelter within their doors from the eye of an angry Deity, while from
the store hastily emerged Squire Woodbridge, Dr. Partridge and the
parson, and made their several ways homeward as rapidly as dignity
would permit.
Perhaps ten minutes later, Captain Perez Hamlin might have been seen
pricking his jaded horse across the deserted green. He looked around
curiously at the new buildings and recent changes in the appearance of
the village, and once or twice seemed a little at loss about his
route. But finally he turned into a lane leading northerly toward the
hill, just at the foot of which, beside the brook that skirted it,
stood a weather-beaten house of a story and a half. As he caught sight
of this, Perez spurred his horse to a gallop, and in a few moments the
mother, through her tears of joy, was studying out in the stern face
of the man, the lineaments of the boy whose soldier's belt she had
buckled round him nine years before.
CHAPTER FIFTH
THAT MEANS REBELLION!
Elnathan was the only one of the family who went to church the
following day.
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