"I'm afraid not over twenty or thirty. Three-quarters are for the
mob."
"There are a dozen of us here, and I presume at least a score more
gentlemen in town could be depended on," said Dr. Partridge.
"But that would give not over three score, and the mob could easily
muster four times that," said Gleason.
"They have no leaders, though," said Bacon. "Such fellows are only
dangerous when they have leaders. They could not stand before us, for
methinks we are by this time become desperate men."
"You forget this Hamlin fellow will stop at nothing, and they will
follow him," remarked Seymour.
"He is going to leave town this week, if he be not already gone," said
Dr. Partridge.
"What?" exclaimed Woodbridge, almost with consternation.
"He is going away," repeated the doctor.
"Perhaps it would be expedient to wait till he has gone," was
Gleason's prudent suggestion.
"And let the knave escape!" exclaimed Woodbridge, looking fiercely at
the schoolmaster. "I would not have him get away for ten thousand
pounds. I have a little reckoning to settle with him. If he is going
to leave, we must not delay."
"My advices state that Squire Sedgwick will be home in a few days to
attend to his cases at the October term of the Supreme Court at
Barrington.
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