And the next morning, when Mr.Tretherick returned to his husks, he found the house vacant and untenanted, except by motes and sunbeams.
When it was fairly known that Mrs.Tretherick had run away, taking Mr.
Tretherick's own child with her, there was some excitement and much diversity of opinion, in Fiddletown.

THE DUTCH FLAT INTELLIGENCER openly alluded to the "forcible abduction" of the child with the same freedom, and it is to be feared the same prejudice, with which it had criticized the abductor's poetry.

All of Mrs.Tretherick's own sex, and perhaps a few of the opposite sex, whose distinctive quality was not, however, very strongly indicated, fully coincided in the views of the INTELLIGENCER.

The majority, however, evaded the moral issue; that Mrs.Tretherick had shaken the red dust of Fiddletown from her dainty slippers was enough for them to know.

They mourned the loss of the fair abductor more than her offense.