The Secret of the Storm Country — Grace Miller White

" ...] "Keep what a secret?" Daddy Skinner's face grew furtive with fear. "Why-well now, s'posin' Andy Bishop-ye remember Andy, the little man I told ye about, the weenty, little dwarf who squatted near Glenwood?" Tess nodded, and the fisherman went on, hesitant. "He-were accused-of murderin'-" "Waldstricker-Ebenezer Waldstricker's father?" interjected Tess. "Sure, I remember " Her eyes widened in anxiety. "Andy were sent up there fer all his life, weren't he? An' weren't he the one Sandy Letts swore agin?... 'Satisfied' ...]."