Isaac seems likely to make something of himself, after all.' 'I will
read it in the morning,' I said, and then I told him that I was glad
that he had given the ground. 'Your uncle Frank advised me to tell you
of it to-night,' said he.
"I went upstairs to my work, leaving him below. Soon afterwards I went
down again to get the paper, feeling that I might as well read it
before going to bed. He was reading in the back parlor. I got the
envelope out of the drawer in the front room and went back upstairs
without disturbing him. A minute afterwards I heard the shot. My own
gun was standing in the corner. I grabbed it up and crawled through a
window on to the gallery, running down the back steps. As I reached
the bottom I saw a man climbing over the fence to the right. Not
dreaming that a tragedy had occurred, I rushed after him. He easily
got away in the darkness. Then I returned to the house. As I came near
I saw Isaac Perry--unmistakably Isaac Perry--at the corner. He turned
and ran the instant he saw me. When he crossed in front of the lighted
parlor windows I distinctly saw that he did not carry a gun.
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