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"Hold on! " said Yancey Battick, halting Hiram just after he was inside the house and the door was closed. "Who sent you here?"
He seemed a very suspicious man. His blue eyes searched the open countenance of the boy from the East, and his expression, with bristling moustache and all, was fierce indeed.