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No sound had escaped the Missourian, from the moment the stranglingly tight left arm had been thrown around his throat from behind until, a second later, he fell bleeding and lifeless. In twenty leaping strides, Bruce came up to the slain sentinel and bent over him. Dog-instinct told the collie his friend had been done to death.
"I will tell you what I will do; I will write to an intelligent colored man in each of the largest settlements of colored people, Chatham, Amhurstburg, and Sandwich, and will receive replies from each within four days, and I will give you the result of their inquiries." At the time appointed the Missourian returned for tidings.
"I accused him right soon of being a Southerner," Mrs. Whitney went on. "He admitted he was a Missourian. When I confessed I liked his drawl he told me I ought to hear his brother, a lawyer, who stutters. Mr. Glover says he wins all his cases through sympathy.
"Wheer's the Chinaman Quong?" I recognised the voice of a cowboy whom we had employed: a man known in the foothills as Cock-a-whoop Charlie. "He's here," Ajax answered quietly. A tall, gaunt Missourian, also well known to us as a daring bull- puncher, laughed derisively. "Here is he? Wal, we want him, but we don't want no fuss with you, boys. Yer white, but he's yaller, and he must go."
A certain flush and pleased expression on honest Jim's ruddy countenance reminded her instantly of the inherent vanity of man, and when she next addressed her attendant it was as "Mr. Harris," for such, indeed, was the surname of our lank Missourian, though not many of his associates had ever heard it. "How long have you been on this place, Mr. Harris?"
There has been so much fiery talk, cumulative for so many years, that they regard northern men with extremely hostile eyes. It would not take much to cause trouble." Colonel Talbot continued to gaze steadily at Shepard, but the Missourian looked down into his plate.
He was a native Missourian, weighing less than one hundred and twenty-five pounds. Though small in stature, he was every inch a man. Frey's division ran from St. Joseph to Seneca, Kansas, eighty miles, which he covered at an average of twelve and one half miles an hour, including all stops. When the war started, Frey enlisted in the Union army under General Blunt.
In his just anger Colonel Carvel remembered that he was the host, and strove to think only of his affection for his old friend. "To invade a sovereign state, sir, is a crime against the sacred spirit of this government," he said. "There is no such thing as a sovereign state, sir," exclaimed the Judge, hotly. I am an American, and not a Missourian."
He would take along a contribution of double the usual size, and win the mother over; with her opposition annulled, the rest of the conquest would be sure and prompt. He took to the road in the middle of a placid Sunday afternoon in the soft Missourian summer, and he was equipped properly for his mission.
This year was one of special peril for, to the accustomed dangers from heat, hunger, and Indians, was added a new one the Mormons. They were still moving westward in their emigration from Nauvoo to the new Zion beside the Great Salt Lake. It was a time and a place to hear the black side of Mormonism. A Missourian hated a Latter Day Saint as a Puritan hated a Papist.
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