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The tone is Bolingbroke's, and it was the lesson George had insistently heard from early youth. How sinister was the advice, men did not see until the elder Pitt was in political exile, with Wilkes an outlaw, and general warrants threatening the whole basis of past liberties. The first writer who pointed out in unmistakable terms the meaning of the new synthesis was Junius.
Beloved and hated, Lawson divided the community for and against himself about equally. There were those who defended and swore they would kill any who harmed the young outlaw he was of the jovial, dare-devil type and as loyal to his friends as he was unyielding to his foes.
Blithely bloometh mead and bank; And blithely buds the tree; And hark! they bring the Summer home; It has no home with me! They have outlawed him my Summer! An outlaw far away! The birds may sing, the flowers may bloom, O, give me back my May!"
"It's little matter, perhaps, as the place is no longer mine. "No... no longer yours, sir?" "I'm an attainted outlaw, Walters," he explained. "They'll bestow it on some Popish time-server, unless King Monmouth can follow up by greater victories to-night's. Have you aught a man may eat or drink?"
"Then must I needs belabour thee to the good of thy soul, sir outlaw. So on with thy coif, I say!" Incontinent ran Roger to fetch his bascinet the which Beltane slowly fitted on above his hood of mail, and thereafter, albeit unwillingly, fronted this doughty knight, foot to foot and point to point.
Had he not broken the spirit of that outlaw devil Teddy in ten minutes? Who else could shoot the heads off chickens at a distance as he had done? Was there another in New Mexico that could, though taken at advantage, put up so fierce a fight against big odds? The young Mexican hated him because of Juanita and his opposition to Miss Valdés.
"They set my sword beside me," he said. "Presently in the dark I saw the gleam of a pool, and I made shift to throw it into the water, so that no outlaw or Morgan's man should boast that he wore it. Ina gave it me. One of the men saw me throw it, and was for staying, but the other said he had heard the splash and that it was gone. Morfed was not near at the time, having gone on.
There, in mahogany and curved-glass wardrobe, are relics of sister Edith. Esther selects some downy hand-embroidered silk and lace-fringed spreads. These replace those covering that besieged cot. With tremulous content she takes a long, approving look at Bessie and extinguishes the light. Straits of one self-banished outlaw are not dreamed of this night.
Before two minutes had passed one had ridden back to the orderly, who reported to the Colonel that the Dakoon had commanded the shooting of five men of the tribe of the outlaw hill-chief, Pango Dooni, against the rear wall of the Palace, where the Dakoon might look from his window and see the deed. The Colonel sat up eagerly in his chair, then brought his knuckles down smartly on the table.
Only one thing kept him from standing his ground to fight it out. He remembered those dangling limp figures hanging from the cottonwoods. These ranchers would rather hang an outlaw than do anything. They might draw all his fire and then capture him. His horror of hanging was so great as to be all out of proportion compared to his gun-fighter's instinct of self-preservation.
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