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Updated: June 23, 2025
"You're just in the nick o' time. They're going to jump on the old lady." "Who's going to jump?" "High Sheriff Niles and his posse. They ain't more'n ten rods behind, jigger wagon and all." The Duke of Fort Canibas stared a moment at the herald. Aunt Charette raised her eyes to her protector with the air of one secure under the wings of a patron saint, and went on knitting.
Therefore, in his serene confidence the confidence of an old man who has founded and knows the solidity of the foundations Thelismer Thornton smoked peacefully at one end of the village of Fort Canibas, and allowed rebellion to roar at its pleasure in the other end.
"Your political rule of out-and-open, as you've been tutored by Vard Waymouth, may work with men, but I'm telling you that it won't operate with girls," replied the Duke. "You may mean all right, but I'm suspicious of you. You sneaked back to Fort Canibas last summer to see her now didn't you?" "I saw her." "You don't pay much attention to my wishes, do you, Harlan?"
It was a trip that took in the cruising of a township for standing timber on short rations and in the height of the blackfly season, an experience not conducive to reflections on love and matrimony. But when he returned to Fort Canibas, on the eve of his departure to take up his duties as General Waymouth's chief of staff, he saddled his horse and rode across the long bridge.
They understood all the hypocrisy of this bland assertion, but protest amounted to nothing. The voters were behind Sylvester. That gentleman promptly put in nomination the name of Harlan Thornton for representative to the legislature from the Canibas class of towns and plantations, and the choice was affirmed by a yell that made the protesting chorus seem only a feeble chirp.
The lobbyist realized what a powerful foe young Thornton could be to his project, and he was desperate. "I've been up through your country, Mr. Thornton. I've been spending some time at Fort Canibas. I've been posting myself generally on railroad and other matters other matters! I don't want to say too much, but I'd like to have you run over in your mind what those other matters might be.
"Bub, in two days be ready to come with me. I'm going to put you in right!" For two days Harlan Thornton rode about over the Fort Canibas district. He talked to men at their doors, in their shops, over the fences of their fields. He knew that some sneered at him behind his back.
But he restrained himself. "Your own grandfather had to take you in hand about the matter before you left Fort Canibas, Thornton. I heard him say that much myself. He gave no details. I don't care for any. I merely came to you to bring a hint as to what you ought to do. You don't seem to take the hint.
Now, you and I can't afford to be enemies. I got the tough end, and I'm willing to overlook and forget. You owe me a little something. I hope you're going to square it. Let me remind you that I'm a bad man with my tongue. I'm free to say it, I depend on my tongue for what I get out of life." It occurred to Harlan that this brazen threat referred to the scandal of the Fort Canibas caucus.
Spinney's remarks, with the Duke of Fort Canibas, lord of the north country, present to listen. "I'm not ashamed of my platform. I'm willing to promulgate it. For I'm going to stand behind it.
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