[{"node":{"title":"Hanna188","Collections":"Part Two","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna188","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Petie' Hamilton","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna188","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Hanna188_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff182\n\nwi' Echlin? What' s biting the baste?\" they whispered to\neach other. Suddenly his foot sounded on the naked road.\nThe young mnan sprang up, raced along the ditch and\ndisappeared up the loanen that lay opposite Echlin's.\n\nHamilton, heavier and slower of foot, started after\nhim and was immediately swallowed up in the gloom. The\npursuit had started so unexpectedly that for a moment the\ncrowd, sprawled at ease on the roadside, stared at each\nother open-mouthed. Then two or three youths sprang up\nwith a whoop and raced after the two men whose footsteps\ncould be heard receding on the stony track. The rest\nclattered after them according to their age and pace.\n\nPetie, who had been astonished as the others, tucked\nhis flute into the breast of his jacket, took Andrew's\nhand, and hurried up the loanen after his neighbours. They\nwere soon left far behind and the old man paused for breath.\n\"*What came over Hami to go hunting after that man, son?\" he\nasked. The boy looked up and shook his small pale face in\nsilence. Then suddenly, ahead of them, they heard the\nshattering roar of a gun. The boy, whose hand was pressed\nclose to Petie\u2019s leg felt the man\u2019s thigh quiver at the\nsound. For a moment o Xxxgtt-fcfxl silence iilxfcdxklaaxnigfri\nmore frightful than the explosion flooded the darkness, and\nthen the cries and counter-cries of the country-folk broke\nout again.\n\nPetie hurried on again dragging the child after him.\nThey airived at the low cottage that stood at the head of\nthe loanen, where several men and women stood at the\ndoorway gesticulating and talking excitedly. Peering through\nthe men's legs, Andrew saw Hamilton leaning back in a chair\nwhile two women bent over him. The lamp, swinging from\nthe rafters, had been lit hurriedly with the funnel awry,\nand it threw a waving smoky light over the crowded room,\nin a corner, on a settle, sat the dark young man who had\nrun away. Two candles were touched into life on the mantel\nshelf and by the added light Petie saw his wife raising a\n","Type":"Text"}}]