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They had cannons and demanded surrender. We was a scant two hundred fightin' men, and the only artillery we had was what we made ourselves. We broke up an old steamboat shaft and bored out the pieces so's they'd take a six-pound shot but we wasn't goin' to give up. We'd learned our lesson about mobocrat milishies.
She stopped, her short upper lip holding its incautious mate a prisoner. She blushed furiously under the sudden blaze of his eyes. "So it's true, what Seth Wright hinted at? To think that you, of all people my sweetheart gone over won over by a cursed mobocrat a fiend with the blood of our people wet on his hands! Listen, Prue; I'm going into the desert.
I'm a-pantin' like a tuckered hound a-thinkin' he was a cussed milishy mobocrat come to spoil his household!" The younger man was now able to speak, albeit his breathing was still heavy and the marks of the struggle plain upon him. "What does it mean, Brother Wright all this? Where are the Saints we left here why is the city deserted and why this this?"
"Does my fury swell up in me? No wonder! And you hain't guessed why? Well, them pitiful remnant of Saints, the sick, the old, the poor, waitin' to be helped yender to winter quarters, has been throwed out into that there slough acrost the river, six hundred and forty of 'em." "When we were keeping faith by going?" "What does a mobocrat care for faith-keepin'? Have you brought back the wagons?"
The terms wasn't reely set till Thursday morning, but we knew they would be, and so all Wednesday night we was movin' acrost the river, and it kept up all next day, day before yesterday. You'd ought to 'a' been here then; you wouldn't wonder at my comin' down on you like a thousand of brick jest now, takin' you for a mobocrat.
There was a knock at the door, but Joel stood with his back to it. The words of Seth Wright were running roughshod through his mind. He looked sharply at Prudence. "A mobocrat our enemy and you have taken favours from him a minion of the devil? shame!" The girl looked up. "He was kind; you don't realise that he has probably saved their lives. Indeed, you must let him in and thank him." "Not I!"
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