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Updated: June 22, 2025
"She told you so?" the amused question was very gentle. "That cat of a stepmother had a relative on a farm, some place so God-forsaken they couldn't keep help, so the cat kindly told the girl she was desertin' that if other jobs failed she could go there.
"If you try to interfere, young man, I'll wring your neck; and if you cry out, I carry a pistol upon me " and sure enough he pulled a pistol from his pocket and laid it on the stones between his feet. "I'm a desperate man," he said. "Hullo!" said Nandy, beginning to understand. "Desertin', eh?"
Don't niver take it. I agree with ye that it's a demon, says he. 'Why, says she, 'do ye drink this dhreadful poison? says she. 'Because, says th' brave fellow, 'I can't get annything sthronger without desertin, he says. "An' they wint down to Washington to see th' Congressmen. Ye know what a Congressman is. I've made a few right here in this barroom.
I got a word early in the business as to the way I could serve my country best. It's not been an easy job, and there's plenty of honest folk the day will give me a bad name. They think I'm stirrin' up the men at home and desertin' the cause o' the lads at the front. Man, I'm keepin' them straight.
She knows more now than I do and she'd soon be wantin' to know more. She's that kind. "She'd ought to have her chance the way I've seen girls in towns havin' a chance. A chance to study and learn and grow the way she wants to. And now I'm desertin'; goin' out like a smoky lamp. "It was a crime, a crime!" he groaned, "ever to bring her mother up into this place!"
"I make no doubt he had his reasons for desertin'; but, my faith! I make less doubt ivry man has good reason for killin' him," said Mulvaney. "Happen there was a lass tewed up wi'it. Men do more than more for th' sake of a lass." "They make most av us 'list. They've no manner av right to make us desert."
On the Valley pike, moving toward Winchester.... Poor scoundrel!" Steve, his back against a swamp magnolia, undertook to show that he, too, remembered, and that gratefully. "Yes, sir. You saved me from markin' time on a barrel-head, major an' my foot was sore an' I wasn't desertin' that time any more'n this time an' I was as obleeged to you as I could be. The colonel's awful hard on the men."
There was a pause; then Steve Dagg emerged. "Major, I ain't either stragglin' or desertin'. I was just seperated I got seperated last night. The regiment's jes' down there I crept down an' saw it jes' now. I'm goin' back an' join right away send me to hell if I ain't! though Gawd knows my foot's awful sore " Stafford regarded him closely. "I've seen you before. Ah, I remember!
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