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Scraggy looked down upon the little boy's face, twisted with pain.
She placed her fingers under his chin, closed the tiny jaws, and
wrapped the shawl about the dark head. Without a moment's
indecision, she thrust him through the window-space and said:
"Be ye a good woman, lady, a good woman?"[Pg 9] The owner of the
golden head drew back as if afraid.
"Ye wouldn't hurt a little 'un-a sick brat? He-he's been hooked.
And it's his birthday. Take him, 'cause he'll die if ye don't!"
Moved to a sense of pity, the light-haired woman extended two
slender white hands to receive the human bundle, struggling in pain
under the muffling shawl.
"He's a dyin'!" gasped Scraggy. "His pappy's a hatin' him! Give
him warm milk-"
Again the yacht's whistle shrieked hoarsely, drowning her last
words. As the stern of the little boat swung round, Scraggy read,
stamped in black letters upon it:
Harold Brimbecomb, Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson, New York.
The lazy warmth of a May afternoon, the spring following Orn
Skinner's release from Auburn Prison, was reflected in the
attitudes of three men lounging on the shore in front of
"Satisfied" Longman's shack. At their feet, the waters of Cayuga
Lake dimpled under the rays of the western sun. Like a strip of
burnished silver, the inlet wound its way through the swamp from
the elevators and railroad stations near the foot of south hill.
Across the lake rose the precipitous slopes of East Hill,
tapestried in green, etched here and there by stretches of winding
white road, and crowned by the buildings on the campus of Cornell
University. Stretched from the foot of State Street on either side
of the Lehigh Valley track lay the Silent City, its northern end
spreading several miles up the west shore of the Lake. Its
inhabitants were canalers, fishermen and hunters, uneducated, rough
and superstitious. They built their little huts in the simplest
manner out of packing boxes and rough lumber and roofed them with
pieces of tin and sheet iron. Squatters they were appropriately
named, because they paid no attention to land titles, but stuck
their shacks wherever fancy indicated or convenience dictated.
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