Get along, Joel."
The crowd started to follow him to the shed where his horses were, but
after a moment he turned on them and said:
"Ain't you heerd and seen enough? Ain't there no law to protect a man?"
A hoe was leaning against a fence. He saw it, and with sudden fury,
seizing it, swung it round his head as if to throw it into the crowd. At
that moment a stalwart constable ran forward, raised a hand towards
Mazarine, and then addressed the crowd.
"We've had enough of this," he said. "I'll lock up any man that goes a
step further towards the Meetin' House. Where do you think you are?
This is Askatoon, the place of peace and happiness, and we're going to be
happy, if I have to lock up the hull lot of you. I guess you can go
right on, Mr. Mazarine," he added. "Go right on and git your wagon."
A moment later Mazarine was walking alone towards the Meeting House; but
no, not alone, for a hundred devils were with him.
CHAPTER XIV
FILION AND FIONA--ALSO PATSY KERNAGHAN
Patsy Kernaghan was in his element in the garden with which Norah Doyle
had decorated the brown bosom of the prairie.
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