Bill Hutchinson Alternate Ending

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It was silent as Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife Tessie and force the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it. Bill Hutchinson seemed as if he had no heart or compassion for Tessie as he raised up the slip of paper, that created a general sigh of relief from the crowd, But Tessie was afraid you could hear it in her voice as she screamed, ‟Please no this isn’t fair!” As they back her into a corner her. ‟ No stop please I have a family.” or so Tessie thought they were her family, but she thought to herself would family do such an inhuman thing?, but as for the rest of the village they were relieved as everyone in the village started to grab stones. Little Davy Hutchinson with no clue what was going on runs to his mother, …show more content…

Summers clearly annoyed with no sympathy asked where Mr. Hutchinson was so he could tame his menace of a child, but as far as the village knew they thought he was long gone. People in the village were confused, but when the people in the village turned to first deal with Tessie ‟she’s gone!” Screamed Mrs. Delacroix as she dropped her bowling ball sized stone to the dusty ground. Out of the corner of Mrs. Graves eyes she sees Tessie run across the stream into the nearby woods with Davy she contemplates if she should say something or let Tessie go. I guess she wasn’t the only one who saw Tessie go into the woods because Mrs. Dunbar yell ‟She went into the woods Tessie is in the woods!” Everyone turns and heads towards the woods, but Mr. Hutchinson runs out of the school ‟STOP!” yelled Mr. Hutchinson as he pleads to Mr. Summers to let Tessie live and take him instead the villagers push him out of the way, but he refuses to let them take Tessie so he runs in front of the crowed with stones and throws them at Mr. Summers feet and demanded that he would be the one who got stoned in place of his wife. ‟Fine.” Sighed Mr. Summers ‟Lets get this over quickly.” Mr. Hutchinson was startled as they came upon him but he was reassured with the thought Tessie and Davy would be

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