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Stubbs at the corner found himself in the arms of an excited man, who, revolver in hand, had run back to meet him. "Lord!" exclaimed Danbury, "I was afraid I was too late." Without further parley he hurried the girl into the closed carriage and with a yell over his shoulder for the two men to follow, clambered back upon the box. "The boat's at the dock," he shouted. "Steam all up. Get on behind!"
Danbury had too many friends for that, however, and it really looked as if the poor chap was going to the bad, when a very curious thing happened which pulled him up with such a sudden jerk that he never put his hand upon the neck of a whisky bottle again.
With a record of past defeats he himself had lost prestige with the hill people. And yet both the priest and Danbury turned to him now to manage the campaign. He knew the people, he knew every detail of the Republican army, every particular of the forts and other defenses, and every traitor in their ranks. To take Carlina it was necessary only to capture Bogova, its capital.
The session of May, 1792, contented itself with only such legislation in regard to the Western Reserve as that by which it granted the "Fire Lands," so called, a grant of 500,000 acres as indemnity to the citizens of New London, Groton, Fairfield, Norwalk, and Danbury, for the destruction of their property in the burning of their towns by British troops.
His trap was waiting, and in a few minutes they started on the drive to Danbury. The distance is about five miles, and, until Danbury Hill is reached, the countryside has no point of interest to distinguish it from any other representative bit of rural Essex.
"What did Stubbs tell you of this expedition?" "Nothing except that we are running to Carlina." "Yes," sighed Danbury, dreamily, "to Carlina. Well, things certainly have been coming fast for you these last few days. And I'll tell you right now that when we reach Carlina if you need me or any of this crew to help you get the girl, you can count on us.
How many did you get in all?" "Fifty to a man." "They looked husky in the dark." "Yes, they've gut beef 'nuff but that ain't all that makes a man. Howsomever, they're as good as I expected." Wilson gasped; the master of this strange craft was no other than Danbury! Of Love and Queens For a few minutes Wilson kept in the background.
"Well, their life will be a short one and a merry in that crowd. Once the darned republic is running again, they will be got rid of." If Danbury squirmed at having missed the excitement at Bogova, he fairly writhed with envy of Stubbs and Wilson.
Or else why on his sleeve was the badge for "stalking." But always to have to make believe became monotonous. Even "dry shopping" along the Rue de la Paix when you pretend you can have anything you see in any window, leaves one just as rich, but unsatisfied. So the advice of the war correspondent to seek out German spies came to Jimmie like a day at the circus, like a week at the Danbury Fair.
Danbury led the way into a small cabin so brilliant with the reflection of the electric lights against the spotless white woodwork that it was almost blinding. But it was a welcome change from the dark and the cool night air and the discomfort of the last few hours.
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