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He explained that Elkins had not been arrested on his orders, but by some of Parker’s men, who were in vicious humor because of their leader’s recent death. They had told Quantrell that Elkins had joined the Union forces at Kansas City, and was now in Cass county as a spy.

Crackenthorp, the rector, assisted by Squire Cass and other substantial parishioners. It had just occurred to Mr.

White had been crossed in love, and long after had married a deformed woman for science's sake, perhaps. His talent was well known out of Rosville; but he was unambitious and eccentric. "He is interested in you, Cass, that I see. Are you quite well? What about the change you spoke of?" "Dr. White has theories; he has attached one to me.

She spoke sharply and aggressively, and so evidently in answer to Cass's unspoken indictment against her, that he was not surprised when she became more direct. "You know you were shocked when I went to fetch that Hornsby, the coroner, after we found the dead body." "Hornsby wasn't shocked," said Cass, a little viciously. "What do you mean?" she said, abruptly.

M'Mullen became interested, and with his Chicago partners endeavoured to enlist the aid of the men behind the Northern Pacific Jay Cooke, General Cass, W. B. Ogden, T. A. Scott, and others. M'Mullen soon found that Waddington had exaggerated his influence, and that the government was not yet prepared to discuss terms.

Mortimer stepped up to him almost at once, speaking with low, earnest rapidity; the cashier was in his own office and Mr. Cass was not within earshot. "I put the money back, but its loss had been discovered yesterday. I have been accused of taking it, but have denied it, accusing no one. I want you to say that you borrowed it, thinking it no great harm, as it was your father's money."

Cass took it, and you wasted a day of the bank's time covering the crime for him." "Cass took it?" asked Mortimer in a dazed way, looking from Crane to Allis. "Yes; he has confessed, so you see he's ahead of you in that line" He went on, speaking hurriedly: "I ask you to forgive me now for my suspicions. Your innocence is completely established.

Buchanan, when he demanded that the Government should arrest with vigor from the beginning the faintest wish of separation. General Cass was nearer right than he himself imagined.

The man who rejects that immunity which laughter generally casts upon him and demands to be seriously considered deserves no mercy. It was under these hard conditions that Cass Beard, convicted of overt sentimentalism, aggravated by inconsistency, stepped into the Red Chief coach that evening.

She had asked so little of life just a few good times to offset the drudgery, just an outlet for the ocean of love that was dammed up in her small body. Love was the only thing she cared about; it was the only thing that mattered in life. Cass never understood her, but Quin understood her. He was like that himself.