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The giant before us, mounted on Cricket, was my prisoner of the previous day. "Who are you?" he was calling imperiously. "Captain Jewett ought to know," Ferry called back, and on that the questioner recognized us both. He became very stately. "Lieutenant Durand, I believe." "At times," said Lieutenant Durand. "And at other times ?" "Lieutenant Ferry Ferry's scouts."
Never but in one other pair of eyes? no; and whose were those? Ned Ferry's. "Don't you love to see Charlotte and him look at each other in that steady way when they're talking together?" Camille asked me later.
"The ferry's at the bank at Panuco, and once you're across, the rebels aren't so thick on the north shore. Why, you can beat the steamboat back to Tampico by hours. And it hasn't rained for days. The road won't be at all bad."
I took her up befo' me on de hoss, an' we started fur home, 'Pears like de road from Platte City to de Leavenworth ferry's jus' 'bout de lonesomes' in dis yeah worl', an' I hadn't trabelled more'n five mile 'fore I knew I was follered.
"No, sweetest friend, there will never be another chance like this; Captain Ferry's orders carry him to Jackson at daylight to-morrow, and and we may not meet again for years; let me go on.
She dropped a hand to Ferry's to receive again the neglected letter, and chanced to take it by the corner that held the ring.
This happens to be the case with Lee's Ferry, a designation now commonly accepted for the mouth of the Paria, though it commemorates the Mountain Meadows massacre, through the name of the leading culprit in that awful frontier tragedy. Yet John Doyle Lee was at the river only a few years of all the years of the ferry's long period of use.
Ferry's suggestion. Did you know he put up that rustic bench out there this afternoon? Made it out of the tree he chopped down." "I didn't stop to wonder how it came there. I wonder if Max noticed it? I suppose he will think that was more of our impudence. It was kind of Ferry, though. He'll be a good neighbour for them." "Oh, Jarvis, how I wish we could all stay here, too!"
"Is she alone?" Ferry prompted in a whisper, the three of us cried "Yes!" and he added "Pass one side from the door, Miss Harper, we are going to shoot through it." "Hello, in there! Lieutenant Ferry, of Ferry's scouts," "Captain Ferry," retorted Miss Harper, and I echoed the amendment. "Damn the difference; I give you one half-minute, Captain Ferry, to say you surrender!
Ferry's black silk handkerchief about his neck covered his Confederate bars of rank, and the Federal may or may not have noted the absence of shoulder-straps; our arms remained undrawn; and so the sergeant, catching a breath or two of disconcertion, caught nothing else.
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