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Updated: October 29, 2025
Will you denounce me, brother?" "I?" Hermann shrank back in horror. "Why not? Five thousand crowns still hang over me." "Blood-money for me? No, Hans!" "Besides, I have made a will. At my death you will be rich." "Rich?" "Yes, Hermann. I am worth two hundred thousand crowns." Hermann breathed with effort. So many things had beaten upon his brain in the past ten minutes that he was dazed.
Each one had some story to tell, some item to add to the accumulated glory of the road. "Ay, it's a merry life," said the man who had had doubts about the bishop's company, "and the only drawback is that it comes to an end when you're at the top of your success. The dealers in blood-money never hunt a man down until he's worth his full price."
Give up this idee of gittin' me business away from me. Ye can't do it. I'm too well established, and the only skipper I've blacklisted is Williams, and he's all ye've got." "What do I git out of it?" "Ye git your blood-money from Williams, widout huntin' up yer min. I git the allotment agin' the expense I'm put to in feedin' thim.
'But I had been brought up to that life; and it was second nature to me. However, it is all over now. The officers have blood-money for taking a man dead or alive, and the trade is going to nothing. We were hunted down like rats. 'Owlett is quite gone, I hear. 'Yes. He is in America. We had a dreadful struggle that last time, when they tried to take him.
Afterwards, years afterwards, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet, to the Government and tell their children how they had slain the redcoats by thousands. The only drawback to this kind of picnic-war was the weakness of the redcoats for solemnly blowing up with powder their fortified towers and keeps. This the tribes always considered mean.
Lately, when the smallpox, spreading from the city, destroyed many of their number, the relations of the deceased demanded and received blood-money: they might easily capture the place, but they preserve it for their own convenience.
A boarding-master, or crimp, without the machinery, becomes a shipping-master, a go-between between the skipper and the boarding-master, whose income is the blood-money paid by skippers for men. Murphy, strolling along South Street a few days later, saw a new sign over a doorway Timothy Hennesey, Shipping-Master.
And a couple of hours afterward one Percival Saint Clair, an ex-sheep-herder of the Rancho Chiquito, might have been seen, with a hundred and nine dollars wages and blood-money in his pocket, riding south on another horse belonging to said ranch." The red-faced man paused and listened. The whistle of a coming freight-train sounded far away among the low hills.
Davia watched him while she listened to the din of the forest world. At length the staff had beaten its way to the water below. "What are ye doin'?" she asked, quite suddenly. And Jean's retort was a repetition of her own words. "It's cursed it's blood-money!" She took his meaning, and her cupidity cried out in revolt. But her protest was useless. "You're not goin' " she began.
When Ernest wrote his 'social' after Max Schurz's affair, he felt he had already touched the lowest depths of degradation. He knew now that he had touched a still lower one. Oh! horrible abyss of self-abasement! he had taken the blood-money. And yet, it was to save Dot's life! Herbert was right, after all: quite right. Yes, yes, all hope was gone: the environment had finally triumphed.
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