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"These gods," she declared with sublime confidence, "can do no wrong! Whatever they propose must be for the best! I have done my part; now it is all in the hands of the Flowing Blossom!" Not until they reached the head of the valley which had been her home did Rolla ask Somat as to the plan. He answered: "Ye and the other woman shall stay here with me, on this hill." He produced a telescope.
It was as easy to imagine enemies as friends; easier in fact. What might not the unknown hold for them? "We cannot stay here," spoke Rolla, with what energy her condition would permit. "We could not hold on. Nor can we return now; They would surely find us!" But Cunora's courage, which had never faltered in the face of familiar dangers, was not equal to the unknown. She wailed: "Rolla!
"And," pursued Rolla, "will ye give me the magic stone, that I may take the flowing blossoms back to my people, and release my loved one from the masters' cruelty?" The great question was put! Rolla waited in tremulous anxiety for the answer. "Aye, stranger!" replied Somat vigorously. "More; ye shall have some of the little sticks!" Whereupon Rolla leaped to her feet and danced in sheer delight.
Marching out from Rolla on January 23, 1862, with three divisions, he halted a week at Lebanon, where he was joined by Colonel Davis, completing organization and preparation. After some skirmishing with Price's outposts, Curtis entered Springfield at daylight, February 15th, to find that Price had abandoned it in the night.
Also, the sun remained in the same position relative to the rocks; if they were climbing, it should have appeared overhead. What did it mean? Finally Rolla saw, about a hundred yards farther on, something which caused her to shout: "Almost there, Cunora!" The younger girl could not spare breath enough to reply. They struggled on in silence. Now they were down on their hands and knees.
Something of the stern pride of this other Rolla was stirred; a sob swelled his bosom, and two tears those tears that rise to a soldier's eyes in the presence of nobility and goodness fell from his eyes upon the hair of the poor girl. "I have not come to that yet," he said, after a short silence. "But we must part " "You are about to marry?" she cried. "Oh, no!" "Ah, so much the better!"
Of the whole number of convictions, not one belonged to the bands of either Vesey, or Peter, or Rolla, or Ned, and but few to that of Gullah Jack's. Absolutely true did these five leaders prove to their vow of secrecy, and so died without betraying a single associate.
And I tell thee, neither shall I have aught to do with Rolla! Rather death than dishonor!" Next moment silence fell between them; and then Van Emmon and Smith noted that both men had been bluffing in what they had said. For, sitting apart in the growing darkness, each was plainly in terror of the morrow.
Whence came ye, and what seek ye?" Rolla had to listen closely to what he said. The language was substantially the same as hers; but the verbs were misplaced in the sentences, the accenting was different, and certain of the vowels were flatted. After a little, however, the man caught her way of talking and was able to approximate it quite well, so that she understood him readily.
Hunter moved his forces back to Rolla and Sedalia and sent 18,000 of his men to join General Grant in the campaigns up the Tennessee River.
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