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Crittenden had been "Ole Captain" with the servants since the death of "Ole Master," his father to distinguish him from "Young Captain," who was his brother, Basil. Master and servant shook hands and Bob's teeth flashed. "What's the matter, Bob?" Bob climbed into the buggy. "You gwine to de wah." Crittenden laughed. "How do you know, Bob?" "Oh, I know I know.
I shouted at the top of my lungs, while Peter sat paralyzed at the sight of Sam's farm-house. Peter had got the old Crittenden house and all the others where he had been entertained in his mind's eye, and that Sam's present residence was a shock to him I could see plainly. That was the beginning.
He learned all the sounds of the late night and early morning, and how they had different voices in the dark; the faint whisper of the maple-branches, the occasional stir and muffled chirp of a bird, the hushed, secret murmur of the little brook which ran between his garden and the Crittenden yard, and the distant, deeper note of the Necronsett River as it rolled down the Ashley valley to The Notch.
Logan, in casting his vote, said: 'As the resolution receives my unqualified approval, I vote Aye; and that further on the 5th of February, 1861, before the inauguration of President Lincoln, in a speech made by Logan in the House in favor of the Crittenden Compromise measures, he used the following language touching Secession: "'Sir, I have always denied, and do yet deny, the right of Secession.
"Ephum" cried the Colonel, diving toward a counter where glasses were set out, a custom new to Eliphalet, "Ephum, some of that very particular Colonel Crittenden sent me over from Kentucky last week." An old darkey, with hair as white as the Colonel's, appeared from behind the partition.
But Crittenden saw only that the Sergeant answered the soldier as though he were talking to a superior.
Peace was come to the face now; peace to the turbulent spirit; peace to the man whose heart was pure and whose blood was tainted; who had lived ever in the light of a baleful star. He had loved, and he had been faithful to the end; and such a fate might have been his as justly God knew. Footsteps approached again and Crittenden turned his head. "Why, he isn't dead!"
At the same moment hoofs beat the dirt-road behind him familiar hoof-beats and he turned to see Basil and Raincrow for Crittenden's Colonel was sick with fever and Basil had Raincrow now on their way with a message to Chaffee at Caney. Crittenden saluted gravely, as did Basil, though the boy turned in his saddle, and with an affectionate smile waved back at him. Crittenden's lips moved.
While you were here, he was usually out West; and people thought we were merely cousins, and that I was weaning him from his unhappy ways. I was young and foolish, but I had you know the rest." The tears gathered in her eyes. "God pity him!" Crittenden turned from her and walked to and fro, and Judith rose and walked up to him, looking him in the eyes.
Fort Crittenden is no longer occupied and has not been for some time; but a short distance toward Benson is Fort Huachuaca, where at present a garrison of the Ninth Cavalry is quartered. During part of 1868 I carried mail from where Calabasas is now it was then Fort Mason to Fort Crittenden, a proceeding emphatically not as simple as it may sound.
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