Two Little Finns by Mary E. Ropes

THE next day, the whole of Carfoos was up in arms, for though Freskel / had told no one but Pastor Oshart that his brother were concerned in / the night attack on the woodcutter's cottage, Dorlat and Hervitz were / held in such ill repute, that as soon as the news reached the village / that Grubert Reuss' house had been forcibly entered, suspicion had at / once fallen upon them. Indeed, so vehement in their indignation were / the villagers that the old pastor could hardly restrain them from / making a raid upon the dwelling of the Valdens, and laying violent / hands upon the two young men and upon their father also, for Jaspar / Valden was accounted no better than his sons, though, being seldom / abroad, he was not so well-known by sight.

"It is time that our village was rid of this family of evil-doers," / said one of the men in council. "They are lawless enough to have / descended in a direct line from the dreadful pirate band that are said / to have settled here so long ago, and stored their treasure in the Isle / of Ghosts."