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Updated: May 14, 2025
The man wore a slouch hat, tow linen breeches, home-made suspenders, a belt with two pistols, and on his naked heels were two huge Texan spurs. Harry broke into a laugh, and Chad's puzzled face cleared when the man grinned; it was Yankee Jake Dillon, one of the giant twins. Chad looked at him curiously; that blow on the head that his brother, Rebel Jerry, had given him, had wrought a miracle.
And the Major, who had a passion for Sir Walter, tested Chad's knowledge, and he could mention hardly a character or a scene in the two books that did not draw an excited response from the boy. "Wouldn't you like to stay here in the Bluegrass now and go to school?" Chad's eyes lighted up. "I reckon I would; but how am I goin' to school, now, I'd like to know?
Morgan had every road around Lexington guarded, no doubt, and was at that hour hemming in Chad's unsuspicious regiment, whose camp was on the other side of town, and unless he could give warning, Morgan would drop like a thunderbolt on it, asleep. He must circle the town now to get around the rebel posts, and that meant several miles more for Dixie.
"I think there can be scarcely a greater unless it may become one, in the future, to be Chad's wife." "Then how do they distinguish YOU?" "They DON'T except, as I've told you, by the green cover." Once more their eyes met on it, and she held him an instant. "The green cover won't nor will ANY cover avail you with ME. You're of a depth of duplicity!"
"Y-e-s," he said, sullenly. "Say it, then," said Chad, and this time Tall Tom roared aloud, and even his two silent brothers laughed. Again Daws, with a furious oath, started for the dogs with his club, but Chad's ally stepped between. "You say 'nough, Daws Dillon," he said, and Daws looked into the quiet half-smiling face and at the stalwart two grinning behind.
Distinctly that road was no path for a lady to tread, but Dixie was to know it better in the coming war. Within ten miles of the Turners', Chad met the first man that he knew Hence Sturgill from Kingdom Come. He was driving a wagon. "Howdye, Hence!" said Chad, reining in. "Whoa!" said Hence, pulling in and staring at Chad's horse and at Chad from hat to spur. "Don't you know me, Hence?"
He whistled long and hard after sending his message; he whistled again and again in celebration of Chad's news; there was an interval of a fortnight in which this exercise helped him.
Two lads at that table were growing white Chad and Harry and Chad's lips opened first. "I don't think slavery has much to do with the question, really," he said, "not even with Mr. Lincoln." The silent surprise that followed the boy's embarrassed statement ended in a gasp of astonishment when Harry leaned across the table and said, hotly: "Slavery has EVERYTHING to do with the question."
How she worked in the house and in the garden to keep their bodies and souls together, after the old hunter was shot down and her boys were gone to the war. How she had learned the story of Chad's mother from old Nathan Cherry's daughter and how, when the old woman forbade her going to the Bluegrass, she had slipped away and gone afoot to clear his name.
Chad rose then with his thumb on the lock of his gun and over the hill came a tall figure and a short one, about Chad's size and a dog, with white feet and white face, that was bigger than Jack: and behind them, three more figures, one of which was the tallest of the group. All stopped when they saw Chad, who dropped the butt of his gun at once to the ground.
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