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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Every day or two I hear about how dissipated Jeff used to be and how if it were not for his good and noble cousin he would have gone to the deuce long ago," Rawson contributed. Chunn pounded on the table with his fist. "Jeff's own fault. Talk about durn fools! That boy's got them all beat clear off the map. And I'm dashed if I don't like him better for it."
The Captain was not satisfied, but he did not quite see what more he could do. "The boy is a son of an old comrade of mine. We were in the war together. So of course I have to stand by Jeff," he pleaded with a smile. "You were in the rebel army?" The words slipped out before the schoolmaster could stop them. "In the Confederate army," Chunn corrected quietly. Webber flushed at the rebuke.
"Why, you can't run a paper. Can you?" Jeff smiled. "I told Captain Chunn he was taking a big chance." "If he's as rich as they say he is he can afford to lose some money." James took the news of his cousin's good fortune a little peevishly. He did not grudge Jeff's advancement, but he resented that it had befallen him to-day of all days.
Captain Chunn let out a whoop of joy. "Listen here." Rawson read aloud his message. "'Shanghaied on schooner Nancy Hanks. Escaped at Honolulu. Back in Verden to-night. Keep up the fight." "Didn't I say Jeff was alive? Didn't I say he would come back and beat those robbers yet?" the owner of the World demanded. "Don't get excited. It may be a fake."
I'll have every town in the state thoroughly canvassed by lecturers and speakers against the bill. I'll bombard the farmers with literature." "What about the newspapers?" "We control most of them. At Verden only the World is against us." "Buy it." "Can't be bought. Its editorial columns are not for sale." "Anything can be bought if you've got the price. Who owns it?" "A Captain Chunn.
His dead soldier-father was the idol of his heart. "Did I?" He swung Jeff round and looked at him. "You're like him, in a way, and, by Gad! you fight like him. What's your name?" "Jefferson Davis Farnum." "Shake hands, Jefferson Davis Farnum, you dashed little rebel. My name is Lucius Chunn. I was a lieutenant in your father's company before I was promoted to one of my own."
Captain Chunn grumbled a good deal about the way Jeff was always pushing his cousin forward and keeping in the background himself. In his opinion "David" was worth a hundred of the other. "Spirits of old that bore me, And set me, meek of mind, Between great deeds before me, And deeds as great behind,
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