"As for Louise--as for her: I don't know where she is, but I'll find her.
One thing is sure: if I see her, I'll tell her never to go back to you;
and she won't. You've drunk at the waters of Canaan for the last time.
For a Christian you're pretty filthy. Go and wash in the pool of Siloam
and be clean--damn you, Mazarine!"
With that he turned, almost unheeding the hands thrust out to grip his,
the voices murmuring approval. In a moment he had swung his horses round.
He did not go beyond ten yards, however, before someone, running beside
his wagon, whispered up to him: "She's out at Nolan Doyle's ranch. She
went with the Young Doctor and Patsy Kernaghan."
Behind, in the street, a young boy came running through the crowd and
shouting: "I know where they are! I know where they are!" He stopped
before Mazarine. "Gimme half a dollar, and I'll tell you where your
horses are. Gimme half a dollar. Gimme half a dollar, and I'll tell you."
An instant later, with the half-dollar in his hand, he said: "They're up
to the shed of the Meetin' House."
"Yes, go along up to the Meetin' House, Mr. Mazarine," said one of the
miscreants who had driven the horses there. "They're holding a
post-mortem on you at the prayer meetin'. They say you're dead in
trespasses and sins. Get along, Joel."
The crowd started to follow him to the shed where his horses were, but
after a moment he turned on them and said:
"Ain't you heerd and seen enough? Ain't there no law to protect a man?"
A hoe was leaning against a fence.
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