I kept as calm as I could in the midst of this excitement.

I remember laughing when I thought of the mess in which "Mr.
Purvis" would shortly find himself.
I passed the house from which the three riders had just turned into the road.

A number of women and an old man and three or four children stood on the porch.

They looked at me in silence as I was passing and then began to hiss and jeer.

It gave me a feeling I have never known since that day.