in no ways crushed by the event; but while Martha was ill,

others to extricate themselves from the mass, the immediate

attention was distracted from the murderer, although the

universal eagerness for his capture was, if possible, increased.

The man had shrunk down, thoroughly quelled by the ferocity of

the crowd, and the impossibility of escape; but seeing this

sudden change with no less rapidity than it had occurred, he

sprang upon his feet, determined to make one last effort for his

life by dropping into the ditch, and, at the risk of being