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Updated: June 23, 2025
"I'm Presson, chairman of the State Committee," explained that gentleman. The Duke of Fort Canibas was too much absorbed to make presentations. "Hell! That so?" ripped out the other, frankly astonished. "Well, I'm glad you're here. You ought to be able to help us out." Presson was not cheerful or helpful.
It was Spinney, was it, Spinney and the kind I've seen training with him in this thing, that stirred up the opposition in this State the kind of opposition we found at our Fort Canibas caucus?" "From all reports, yes. I know some of the agents that have been working in the State. The men behind have hidden themselves pretty well, and I'm not exactly certain where their money is coming from.
Thelismer Thornton had been nicknamed "The Duke of Fort Canibas." Add that the nicknames were not ill bestowed. Such was the Hon. Thelismer Thornton. He had brought newspapers in his pockets. He set his eyeglasses on his bulging nose, and began to read. In the highway below him teams went jogging into the village.
There is a contest on even in that impregnable fortress of the old regime, the 'Duchy of Canibas. It is said that the whole strength of the State reform movement is quietly behind the attempt to destroy Thelismer Thornton's control in the north country. His is one of the earliest caucuses, and the moral effect of the defeat of that ancient autocrat will be incalculable."
War and Peace had swapped corners that morning in the village of Fort Canibas. War was muttering at the end where two meeting-houses placidly faced each other across the street. Peace brooded over the ancient blockhouse, relic of the "Bloodless War," and upon the structure that Thelismer Thornton had converted from officers' barracks to his own uses as a dwelling.
Thornton, and I kept my ears open up in Fort Canibas." His face grew hard. "D n you, I'll never forget what you did to me! I'm coming right out open with you. I'd like to do you in return. I can do it. But I'll give you a chance; it's for my interest to do so, providing you buy the let-off. If you don't stand by me in that tax rebate, I'll launch the story.
For, woodsman and unversed in the ways of women, he had not arrived at that point in life where he could analyze even a boy's love, much less a man's passion. The next morning he left Fort Canibas with big Ben Kyle, to make a tour of the Thornton camps.
And even though Presson now understood better some of the motives that prompted the Duke to force young Harlan out into the world, his political sensibilities were more acute than his sympathy. Therefore the beleaguered lord of Canibas was left to fight it out alone. He stood at the end of the porch and listened to the menacing sounds of the village.
He was again their Duke of Fort Canibas, who could retire with dignity even from such a position as this. "Go ahead and train with your crowd, Sheriff Niles," he drawled, sarcastically "Tom Willy, and whoever they are behind him that are too ashamed to show themselves!" He started for the door, Luke Presson at his heels.
Only, after he had sealed the letter and inscribed it, he lay back in his chair awhile, and then, having reflected that after three weeks he would no longer be his own man, he decided that he'd better run up to Fort Canibas and attend to his business interests.
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