The Headless Huntsman (4 page)

 

“Well said, Mary,” whispered Mr Blood.

Then, the crowd all began to talk at once. A young man ran to the top of the Town Hall steps.

“The girl is right,” he shouted to the crowd.

“We are better than the councillors. We will not make them pay with their lives but they will give their rich houses to the poor and they will work for the rest of their lives to make up for their greed and cruelty,” he said.

“Yes! Yes!” shouted the crowd.

Mr Blood turned to the Headless Huntsman but he had vanished.

“What has happened to the Headless Huntsman?” asked Edgar, as the three of them left the town of Goreditch.

“Now he has brought justice to the town, he can rest in peace,” said Mr Blood.

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