Hot Plowshares

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... the regard of her fellows, as well as in the studies they had pursued together. Now she feared that her interference would be revealed. What if the kidnappers should be discovered and themselves arrested? Then she would be exposed, covered with infamy--perhaps held guilty with them. She would warn them now, and have them go away as quietly as possible. She was terribly frightened. The sweat stood in drops on her forehead and her limbs refused to move. The window was raised now, and a man stepped lightly within. She noticed that he wore coarse woolen socks over his boots to lessen the sound. She looked up at his face, and saw that it was strangely muflied. At length she found strength to rise. She must warn them at once. Suppose Miss Hunniwell were to return? She ran quickly across the room, and laid her hand on the man's arm. She had no fear of him. It was her information that had brought him there. " Hush!" she said in a low whisper. She started, however, when an arm was thrown about her waist, but before she could cry out something soft was pressed against her face; there was a pungent, choking odor; a strange sweetish taste in her mouth; the world seemed suddenly to grow dark and close about her; then as quickly to grow light and expand to infinite distance. She felt herself slipping away from existence, and then--she knew no more. CHAPTER XXXIX. THE CHURCH MILITANT. THE administrator of George Eighmie was very far from being a bad man. He considered his cousin's relation with Alida, and the attempt to free his slaves and devote the proceeds of his estate to the benefit of the children resulting from that union, an outrage, not only upon society in general and the peculiar institution of the South in...