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Title: With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Foster, W. Bert (Walter Bertram), 1869-
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Publisher: (Philadelphia) The Penn Publishing Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ed. You are mis-taken if you think that I fired at you. It is true I cannot prove it, Enoch re-plied. But something else I can prove.He advanced a step nearer to the man. Doyou remember where you hid the moosehoofs, Simon Halpen ? The prisoner shrank back against the treeand his eyes fairly glared up at the youth. You—you he gasped. Yes. They are found. We now knowhow my poor father was killed. And youwere seen running from the place with hisblood upon your clothes and upon your gun.Even your Albany courts would punish youfor that! Then the boy, unable to trusthimself longer in the presence of the manwho had so injured him, hastily left the spot. And the prisoner—how did he feel whiletied to that tree, waiting for the judgmentwhich was to fall upon him for his crimes ?No human being but the criminal himself canever appreciate half the agony of the con-demned. It was long since discovered thatthe gift of speech was given man to concealhis thoughts. To the man of strong will the 326
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PUNISHMENT WAS NEAR AT HAND THB NEW PUBLIC LIBRART ft With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga face is a mask to conceal his feelings. AndSimon Halpen was not a weakling. He mayhave betrayed some emotion when accused byEnoch ; it was a small part only of what he felt. He saw now, as plainly as he saw thelengthening shadows about him, that punish-ment for his crimes was near. These sternwoodsmen, whose plan for attacking Ticonder-oga he had discovered, were in no mood totrifle with him. And what Enoch had toldhim was an assurance that though he mightlive to be brought before a court of justice, hemust stand trial for his crimes. Neitherpolitical influence nor his wealth could savehim from the result of his offenses against thelaws of man and God. He was made desper-ate by these thoughts. He could see from his uncomfortable posi-tion the company of scouts busy with theirsupper. The ordinary observer would nothave imagined that these men were thepioneers of two hundred and thirty GreenMountain Bo

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