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Miss Carter turned and ran into her flat, Mary Rose at her heels. After a moment's hesitation, in which he called himself a bashful idiot, Mr. Strahan deserted his doorway for his neighbor's. On the top shelf of a cupboard like that which had been in Mrs. Bracken's kitchen Mary Rose saw a bottle of milk. She groaned. But Miss Carter gave a pull somewhere and sent it higher.
The carter who drove him was eloquent as only Orientals can be when tragedy flings their customary reserve aside: "May my tongue be torn out if I scatter falsehoods," he said again and again, using the customary phrase, as he showed how it all happened. And late into the night he was still reciting his story to fresh crowds of listeners, who gaped with terror and astonishment.
This was unfortunate for North. It gave them the final attack in detail. Dick began: "Come along! You know you can advertise for her with a personal down there and the old woman wouldn't object as long as you were careful and put in an appearance now and then!" As Dick limped away, Mr. Carter thought, in confidence, that the whole matter even to suit Mr.
The within writ came to hand at 7 o'clock a.m. and was served by me on the said Lorenzo Thomas at 8 o'clock a.m, and I now return this writ and bring him before Chief Justice Carter at 9 o'clock a. m. of to-day. David S. Gooding, U. S. Marshal, D. C. No. 15. Mr. Counsel for Prosecution objected, and Mr.
Two dozen men of the camp went out and arrested Long John, George Ives, Alex Carter, Whiskey Bill, Bob Zachary, and Johnny Cooper. These men were surprised in their camp, and among their long list of weapons were some that had been taken from men who had been robbed or murdered. These weapons were identified by friends. Old Tex was another man taken in charge, and George Hilderman yet another.
"Of course," replied Devers easily. "Still, if you need my help on this thing at all, don't fail to call me." "Thank you, Carter," said Walters. "You've been a great help already." Shaking hands all around and wishing them well, Devers left the office.
"Maybe I can manage that they'll not be parted," said Farfrae. "I want a young carter; and perhaps I'll take the old man too yes; he'll not be very expensive, and doubtless he will answer my pairrpose somehow." "O, you are so good!" she cried, delighted. "Go and tell them, and let me know if you have succeeded!" Farfrae went out, and she saw him speak to the group.
"Yes; that will help us a little; but I can't expect to clear more than twenty dollars out of it, and twenty dollars won't go a great way." "It is something, Herbert." "It isn't enough to pay our next interest bill." Mrs. Carter looked troubled, "If I could sell the property for what it cost your father I should be tempted to do it." "You mean for fifteen hundred dollars?"
'What an odd thing that is! said one: 'there is a cart going along, and I hear a carter talking to the horse, but yet I can see no one. 'That is queer, indeed, said the other; 'let us follow the cart, and see where it goes. So they went on into the wood, till at last they came to the place where the woodman was.
An hour afterwards a negro was sadly leading a tired old man on a superb horse back to headquarters, and as the rider's head sank on his breast he said: "Lead me, Bisco, I'm too weak to guide my horse. Nothing is left now but the curse of it." And O, the curse of it! Fifty-seven Union dead beside the wounded, in the little front yard of the Carter House, alone.
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