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By nine o'clock the next morning everyone in Oak City knew that Paul had escaped. "Broke jail, and there ain't no court to-day," Max Allen said, when he brought the news to Miss Hansford, who was breakfasting alone. Hearing no sound from Elithe's room, she had looked in and, finding her asleep, had decided not to waken her.
"The child is just played out, and no wonder," she said, closing the door carefully, and leaving the room by the opposite way from which she had entered.