Then all was silence.
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Sunset, striking through a western window, rouged the walls of the Schofields' library, where gathered a joint family council and court martial of four--Mrs.Schofield, Mr.Schofield, and Mr.and Mrs.
Williams, parents of Samuel of that ilk.

Mr.Williams read aloud a conspicuous passage from the last edition of the evening paper: "Prominent people here believed close relations of woman sentenced to hang.