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Jessie heard nothing from her brother Sam, until about a fortnight after / her interview with him at Round Hill Pond, when Marcus called her / attention to the following paragraph in a Boston newspaper:
"A FIGHT. -The police were called last night to quell a fight in a / notorious dance cellar in North Street, which for a time threatened / serious consequences. There were several bloody heads in the crowd, / but the only person seriously injured was a Vermont youth, sixteen or / seventeen years old, who, it is said, being crazed with liquor, joined / in the melee, attacking both parties with equal vigor. His name is / said to be Hapley. His injuries are so serious that he was sent to the / hospital."