"
"Take care!" said John, turning white with passion.
"While I'm about it, there's something more I want to say,"
continued Wilbur undauntedly. "Yesterday you knocked my little
brother off his sled and sent him home crying. If you do it
again, you will have somebody else to deal with."
John trembled with anger. It would have done him good to "pitch
into" Wilbur, but the latter looked him in the face so calmly and
resolutely that discretion seemed to him the better part of
valor, and with an oath he turned away.
"I don't know what's got into John Haynes," said Wilbur. "I never
liked him, but now he seems to be getting worse and worse every
day."
CHAPTER XXIII. POMP TAKES MRS. PAYSON PRISONER
Old Mrs. Payson, who arrived in Rossville at the same time with
Henry Morton, had been invited by her daughter, "Cynthy Ann," to
pass the winter, and had acquiesced without making any very
strenuous objections. Her "bunnit," which she had looked upon as
"sp'ilt," had been so far restored by a skilful milliner that she
was able to wear it for best.
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