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218 "I ran into the yard, sick with terror; and called for Zillah, aa loud as I could. She soon heard me; she was milking the cows in a shed behind the barn; and hurrying from her work, she inquired what there was to do?

"I hadn't breath to explain; dragging her in, I looked about for Linton, Earnshaw had come out to examine the mischief he had caused, and he was then conveying the poor thing up-stairs. Zillah and I ascended after him; but, he stopped me, at the top of the steps, and said, I shouldn't go in, I must go home.

"I exclaimed that he had killed Linton and I would enter.

"Joseph locked the door, and declared I should do 'no sich stuff,' and asked me whether I were 'bahn to be as mad as him.'

"I stood crying, till the housekeeper re-appeared; she affirmed he would be better in a bit; but he couldn't do with that shrieking, and din, and she took me, and nearly carried me into the house.