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Men have tried to use, with these simple people just freed from slavery and with no past, no inherited traditions of learning, the same methods of education which they have used in New England, with all its inherited traditions and desires. The Negro is behind the white man because he has not had the same chance, and not from any inherent difference in his nature and desires.
If I can not be of service I beg you to let me descend, for I have business which I must execute to-night." This, of course, was but tentative. I did not care to tell her that my business was with herself. It seemed almost unbelievable to me that chance should take this turn. She dismissed this with an impatient gesture, and continued. "See, I am alone," she said. "Come with me.
I do not know why, but every bit of evidence against the man came instantly thronging back to my mind the chance remark of Thockmorton on the Warrior about his suspicion of Indian blood; the high cheek bones and thin lips; the boy's earlier description; the manner in which our trail had been so relentlessly followed; the strange emblem found pinned to the blanket.
To see him in a passion, was something you wouldn't forget in a hurry; and you wouldn't have known him long without having the chance. Most of us can swear a bit now and then; but you ought to have heard Captain Goss! He used even to frighten the old salts, that had common oaths in their mouths from morning till night.
He drank eagerly, and lighted a cigarette with trembling fingers. "If only I am given a chance " he began, but the detective interfered again. "If only you would shut up!" he said emphatically. "I want your help, and I'm not in the habit of rewarding my assistants by sending them back to prison." "I've cut completely adrift from the old crowd, sir," he pleaded wistfully.
There is some chance of my being a man now. But come, let me cheer you up. I have good news for you. Now let me read you something that will comfort you. I find a place where it is written, 'Begin here. Can you account for that?" And he read that chapter, so old but inexhaustible, beginning, "Let not your heart be troubled."
Walter said. "I should have been grieved had you thrown your life away needlessly. I saw from the first that your escape was cut off. And now, men, each to his place; but first pile up the stones against the gate, and then let each man take a good meal, for it is like enough to be long before we get a chance of doing so again."
So I was a-lyin', missis, you see, by a sort o' chance like, when I said he said no names. 'Cos he did. He said his own. Not but what he goes by the name of Wix." "What does he want of old Mrs. Prichard now?" "A screw. Sov'rings, if he can get 'em. Otherwise bobs, if he can't do no better." "Mrs. Prichard has no money." "He says she has and he giv' it her.
It yet wanted ten minutes of the time for the train to go. She stood still, patiently biding her last chance. The first bell rang the steam was up the crowd of passengers poured in; at the last minute but one came the conductor.
His old confidence had come back to him; he meant to kill his man. They took their stations high up among the hills. A few spectators saw their figures outlined against the sky. The command to fire rang out, and from both pistols gushed the flame and smoke. A moment later, Lassalle was seen to sway and fall. A chance shot, glancing from a wall, had struck him to the ground.
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