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"If you have been thus assaulted, young man, and I am not disposed to say it is not as you assert, it can not have been by any of our village, unless it be that Counsellor Pippin and his fellow Hob were the persons: they were down, now I recollect, at the Catcheta pass, somewhere about the time; and I've long suspected Pippin to be more dangerous than people think him." "I deny it all I deny it.

But, if you know not the young fellow himself you should certainly not be at a loss to know the creature he rides; for it is not long since your heart was greatly taken with him. He is the youth we set upon at the Catcheta pass, where your backwardness and my forwardness got me this badge it has not yet ceased to bleed the marks of which promise fairly to last me to my grave."

It's not true, young man. It's not true, my friends; don't believe a word of it. Now, Munro, how can you speak so? Hob Hob Hob I say where the devil are you? Hob say, you rascal, was I within five miles of the Catcheta pass to-day?" The negro, a black of the sootiest complexion, now advanced: "No, maussa." "Was I yesterday?"

Well, as everybody knows, the Chestatee fork is at least twenty miles from the Catcheta pass; and if we were in one place, we could not, I am disposed to think, very well be in another." "An alibi, clearly established," was the remark of Counsellor Pippin, who now, peering over the shoulders of the youth, exhibited his face for the first time during the controversies of the day.

"Hear me!" was the exclamation of the youth his voice rising in due effect, and illustrating well the words he uttered, and the purpose of his speech: "I charge this born and branded villain with an attempt upon my life. He sought to rob and murder me at the Catcheta pass but a few days ago.