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The planter's speech was broken and hoarse, and his heavy, bloodshot eyes were the eyes of a haunted man; this was all a part of Fentress' scheme to face the world, and Ware still believed that the fires Hicks had kindled had served his desperate need.
If any such were found, an hour or two would be spent in recalling the faded glories of the Governor's long-vanished administration. On the return march the General would invariably suggest that, His Excellency being no doubt fatigued, it would be wise to recuperate for a few minutes at the Drug Emporium of Mr. Mr. Appleby R. Fentress was a connoisseur in fatigue.
It was highly important that he should go east to South Carolina to secure documentary evidence that would establish his own and Fentress' identity, to Kentucky, where Fentress had lived prior to his coming to Tennessee.
Between here and the gulf " he made a wide sweeping gesture with his arm. "I am spotting the country with my men; there are two thousand active workers on the rolls of the Clan, and as many more like you, Tom and Fentress on whose friendship I can rely." He leaned toward Ware.
David Crockett in his autobiography tells the story of "Deaf and Dumb Jimmy" but he places the scene in Kentucky, making probably the same mistake in the location of the state-line boundary which Coonrod Pile had made. Coonrod Pile lived to the age of eighty-three and at the time of his death was the most powerful personality in Fentress county.
"Certainly, I understand that perfectly well. It wouldn't suit your schemes to have that brace of old sots handled by the Clan. Which shall it be up or down river?" "Could you take care of him for me below, at Natchez?" inquired Fentress. "As well there as anywhere, Colonel, and he'll pass into safe hands; he won't give me the slip the second time!" "Good!" said Fentress, and took his leave.
With their homes back in the mountains nearly fifty miles from the railway, with a journey before them over rocky roads and up mountainsides to the other communities of Fentress county, the people of Pall Mall live in the communion and democracy of one great family. Children call old men by their Christian names.
He saw his valley home changed from a part of the State of Franklin to a part of the State of Kentucky, then to Tennessee, and the abstracts to the deeds for land he owned show that Pall Mall was first in Granger county, later in Overton and finally in Fentress county as the State of Tennessee developed.
He stepped to the walnut centertable where there was a decanter and glasses. By a gesture the judge declined the invitation. Whereat the colonel looked surprised, but not so surprised as Mahaffy. There was another silence. "I don't think we ever met before?" observed Fentress.
"He thinks he has!" muttered the judge under his breath. "Will you come in?" it was more a question than an invitation. "If you are at liberty." The colonel bowed. "Allow me," the judge continued. "Colonel Fentress Mr. Mahaffy, Mr. Yancy and Mr. Cavendish." Again the colonel bowed. "Will you step into the library?" "Very good," and the judge followed the colonel briskly down the hall.
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