You disbelieved! but I'll see justice done you, Norman, the first thing to-morrow.

Well--" "Well then, I said, old Ballhatchet could tell that I crossed the bridge at the very time they were doing this pretty piece of work, for he was sitting smoking in his porch when I went home, and, would you believe it?
the old rascal would not remember who passed that evening! It is all his malice and revenge--nothing else!" "Why--what have you been doing to him ?" Norman shortly explained the ginger-beer story, and adding, "Cheviot told me I should get nothing but ill-will, and so I have--all those town fellows turn against me now, and though they know as well as possible how it was, they won't say a word to right me, just out of spite, because I have stopped them from all the mischief I could!" "Well, then--" "They asked me whether--since I allowed that I had been there at last--I had dispersed the boys.

I said no, I had no time.

Then they desired to know who was there, and that I had not seen; it was all dark, and there had not been a moment, and if I guessed, it was no affair of mine to say.

So they ordered me down, and had up Ned Anderson, and one or two more who were known to have been in the riot, and then they consulted a good while, and sent for me; Mr.Wilmot was for me, I am sure, but Harrison was against me.