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There couldn't so much as a cat walk in or out, but they'd know it, somehow. And they'd be sure to say she was running after the minister." Miss Henderson's pronouns were not precise in their reference. It isn't necessary for soliloquy to be exact. She understood herself, and that sufficed.
Jurgis' arms were shaking so that he could scarcely hold himself up, and lurched forward now and then as he listened. "When when did this begin?" he gasped. "At the very first," she said. She spoke as if in a trance. "It was all it was their plot Miss Henderson's plot. She hated me. And he he wanted me. He used to speak to me out on the platform. Then he began to to make love to me.
But Tim, who was a warm-hearted Irish boy, steadfastly refused, and left the store in quest of Henderson's hat and cap store, having also a note to deliver to Fosdick. "So that was Micky Maguire who was here a little while since," said Mr. Murdock to himself. "It seems singular that immediately after getting Richard into trouble, he should have come here where he was employed.
"When did you leave Henderson's?" he demanded. "Seven o'clock," answered Hunk Smith, sulkily. "Say, if you young fellows want to catch " "And Patten telegraphed at eight," cried Crosby. "That's it. He reached Kiowa after the stage had gone. Sergeant Clancey!" he called. The Sergeant pushed out from the mass of wondering troopers. "When did the paymaster say he was leaving Kiowa?"
Fearing that Boone, who did not even know that Henderson's cavalcade was on the road, would be unable to hold out, Henderson realized the imperative necessity for sending him a message of encouragement. The bold young Virginian, William Cocke, volunteered to brave alone the dangers of the murder-haunted trail to undertake a ride more truly memorable and hazardous than that of Revere.
Half-consciously he contrasted Miss Henderson's manner to him with theirs. In his own view he had been worse treated than an ordinary farm labourer throughout his farming life, though he had more education, and was expected naturally to have more brains and foresight than the labourer. He was a little better paid; but his work and that of his wife was never done.
Colonel Henderson's treaty was made in the month of March, 1775. With characteristic vigor, he immediately made preparations for the settlement of the kingdom of which he was the proud monarch. The first thing to be done was to mark out a feasible path through which emigrants might pass, without losing their way, over the mountains and through the wilderness, to the heart of this new Eden.
We shall have occasion to speak more particularly of Henderson's company and Boone's connection with it; but we will first call the reader's attention to the state of affairs in North Carolina at this period, and their probable influence on the course pursued by Daniel Boone.
Nevertheless, somehow, he missed the "little brick." Out at Cross Corners, Miss Henderson's Home was all aglow.
He continued mischievously, as he saw that Tracy, on taking note of Walter's compact figure, showed signs of declining the combat. "Hush, Henderson," said Kenrick, one of the group who had taken no part in the talk; "it's a shame to be setting two new fellows fighting their first evening." But Henderson's last remark had been too much for Tracy.
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