"He might have taken the time to saddle the horse or hitched up three spans of mules to a Concord stagecoach and smoked a pipe as it seems no one in the city was after him. He had mistaken the drummers for men. 'The wicked flee when none pursueth.'" (17)
The quote "The wicked flee when none pursueth", originally from Proverbs 28:1, is used to describe Tom Chaney at the beginning of the book. The full quote as quoted from the King James Bible, "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.", goes as far to describe Maddie's ferocity when deciding to pursue Chaney. Chaney fled quickly after he killed Maddie's father despite the fact that nobody chased after him, and Maddie, being only 14 and raised on a farm, pursued him without a second thought.
Works Cited:
http://bible.cc/proverbs/28-1.htm
good.. this connects to the characterization of Maddie
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