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Old Hugh raged and stormed, but did not dare to touch him. They talked it over; Fitz explained why he had left the grizzly bear camp had stayed five days, at the risk of his own life, until there wasn't any nursing to be done; and when he had gone on Hugh Glass was the same as dead and he ought to have stayed dead. Wasn't that reasonable? Hugh scratched his scarred head and half agreed.
The next minute we heard a faint halloo below us near the edge of a small swamp. A man was waving his hat and shouting: "Eve'ybody come yer!" Fitz started on a run, and the agent and I followed on the double-quick. At the end of a crooked stone wall, half surrounded by water, was a great spreading oak, its branches reaching half way across the narrow marsh.
Fitz. came up along-side, and the postillions having yielded to the call to halt, drew suddenly up, displaying to the enraged wife the tableau we have mentioned. "So, wretch," she screamed rather than spoke, "I have detected you at last." "Lord bless me! Why it is my wife." "Yes, villain! your injured, much-wronged wife!
It occurred to Fitz to give him the short name he received from his school-fellows that it might be a Boston friend of Oscar's, just entering the Academy. This might account for his not having met him before. Perhaps he was from an aristocratic Boston family. His intimacy with Oscar rendered it probable, and it might be well to cultivate his acquaintance. On this hint he spoke.
T. B. Fitzpatrick will wait upon you and arrange the details. I name Major Thos. C. Yancey of Virginia as my second in the field. I have the honor to remain Your obedient servant, GEORGE FAIRFAX CARTER, Late Colonel C. S. A. "Suffering Moses!" cried out Fitz. "You are not going to send that?" "It is sent, my dear Fitz. Mailed from my office this afternoon. This is a copy."
"Well, Jedge Barbour's niggers always said dat de coon was dere coon, 'ca'se he was treed on dere lan', and we 'sputed dat it was our coon, 'ca'se it was on our lan'." "Who got de coon?" asked Fitz. "Oh, we got the coon!" And Chad's eyes twinkled. "That settles it. It's your land, Colonel," said Fitz, with one of his sudden roars, in which everybody joined but Chad and the judge.
The little ewe lamb is an epistle from Fitz giving me a lively sketch of the rumpus at the War Office when its pontiffs grasped for the first time the true bearing of their own orders. There was a rush to saddle poor us with the delay as soon as the Cabinet began to show impatience. They seem to have expected the 29th Division to arrive at top speed in a united squadron to rush straightway ashore.
"Yes, I believe I did," he said shortly. Mrs. Spicer's blue eyes grew round with consternation. "Then you really have bought the thing!" she cried. "Oh, Fanny, you idiot! And what on earth are you going to do with it?" "It can sleep on the foot of my bed to-night," returned Fanny Fitz, "and I'll ride it into Galway to-morrow! Mr. Gunning, you can ride half-way if you like!" But Mr.
She gazed long and curiously as if seeking something in the pleasant reflection. "Did she say anything more about Fitz?" she asked suddenly, with an obvious change of the subject which Mrs. Ingham-Baker did not attempt to understand. She was not a subtle woman. "Nothing." Agatha came back and sat down.
"Don't give yourself any uneasiness on that score," Captain Fitz said, he having heard my last remark; "I will take care that he is treated with as much consideration as the circumstances will admit of, and see that he wants for nothing." I uttered a few hurried thanks, and the captain was about to pass, when I detained him. "Is there any means by which we can obtain an interview with my friend?"
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