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So it was decided that the names of both ships should be engraved on the cup, and that the Florida crew should defend the title against a challenging crew from the British Admiral Craddock's flagship. By the end of June, the public interest in Vera Cruz had waned, and the corps of correspondents dwindled until there were only a few left.
So it was decided that the names of both ships should be engraved on the cup, and that the Florida crew should defend the title against a challenging crew from the British Admiral Craddock's flagship. By the end of June, the public interest in Vera Cruz had waned, and the corps of correspondents dwindled until there were only a few left.
"I know," said Mrs Gilmour, interrupting him, and looking very knowing "you don't want to go to Mrs Craddock's, because you sent her poor daughter some port wine, and are afraid of being thanked for it that's the reason, I know." The Captain blushed. "I assure you, ma'am," he began timidly to remonstrate against her conclusion, when suddenly some little recollection gave him renewed courage.
He believed they were there to throw their weight on Craddock's beam of the balance the moment they should see him outmastered and outweighed.
Rhetta, leaning to peer under the lintel of the low door, could see him there, and she reached out her hand, appealing without a word. "He is here, honey," Mrs. Stilwell repeated, assuringly, comfortingly. "Tell him tell him Craddock's come!" Rhetta said. "Craddock?" said Stilwell, pronouncing the name with inflection of surprise. "Oh, I thought something awful had happened to somebody."
It was a high-handed piece of business, the bleached men and kalsomined women declared, as they passed from the humor of contemplating Seth Craddock's return to fretful chafing against the restraint of the present hour. How did it come that one man could lord it over a whole town of free and independent Americans that way? Why didn't somebody take a shot at him?
It was not in the nature of a man humbled from a high place, mocked by the lowly, derided by those whom he had oppressed, contemned by the false friends he had favored, to come back on an errand of revenge. The job was too general in a case like Craddock's. He would have to exterminate most of the town. They left him in the calaboose with whatever reflections were his.
All this time Morgan had stood holding Seth Craddock's big revolvers in his hands, as if he distrusted the desolation of the fire-sown square. Now he sheathed one of them in his holster, and thrust the other under his belt.
This second envelope was addressed to Miss Agnes Darrell, Hotel, Chicago, in the handwriting of Craddock. The feelings of Craddock's wife are imaginable. She took from this already opened second envelope the letter that it contained. It also was in Craddock's penmanship. She succeeded in a semistupefied condition in reading it to the end. "May 13.
He repeated, with blasting enlargement, that the only way they could send him out of Ascalon would be in a box. Judge Thayer drew apart to consult Morgan, in low tones. Morgan was undisturbed by Craddock's unbending opinion that he had plenty of law behind him to sustain his contention that he could not be removed from office.
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