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Updated: June 10, 2025
An' I'd see you all with the key before I'd ever lift a finger to help one of you, and not a one of you can help yourselves." With these words Champers left the company and rode away up the trail toward civilization and safety. In the silence that followed, Pryor Gaines said: "Friends, let us not forget that this is the Sabbath day on the prairie as in the crowded city.
There was a sympathetic chord in Pryor Gaines' voice that spoke home to the heart, and so long as he lived in the Grass River valley, he gave the last service for everyone who left it for the larger life beyond it. "I will go for you, Shirley," Horace Carey said. "You forget who brought you this letter.
Stuart never told her how close they had come to a charge and counter charge at the battle of Gaines' Mill. The old, tremulous question she couldn't keep back: "You didn't see my daddy, did you, dear?" Stuart shouted in derision at the idea. "Of course not, honey girl. It's not written in the book of life. Forget the silly old fear." "And they didn't even scratch my soldier man?"
We consider the good of the class of more importance than the good of any individual member." She smiled disagreeably at Grace, who looked at her steadily, then said, "Was your remark intended for me and my friends, Miss Gaines?" "Not necessarily," flung back the sophomore, "unless you feel that it applies to you and to them." "No, I don't believe it does," declared Grace with a quiet smile.
If Black Hawk and his party, had really intended to resort to arms, who that understands the Indian character, can doubt for a moment, that they would have struck a decisive blow, and murdered every white settler upon Rock river, before General Gaines ascended the Mississippi?
General Butler, Farragut's first colleague in the Gulf and at New Orleans, but who had long since left the department, wrote him a most enthusiastic letter of congratulation upon receiving the news of the battle of Mobile Bay; and General Granger, in concluding his report of the siege operations against Gaines and Morgan, said: "I am pleased to record the perfect harmony existing between these two branches of the service.
"And was that Marion Gaines' plan?" asked Ellen, in surprise. "Why, yes! But surely she must have told you!" said the little girl. "I see now that she tried to," replied Ellen, with a sigh at her own impetuosity. "But I was too vexed to listen. I did not really understand before. Dry your tears, Abby; I'll do my best to make amends now.
Miriam, raising her eyes from the yellow slip, found those of her angry roommate fixed on her in mingled curiosity and disdain. Ignoring the look she said quietly, "I should like to see you for a moment after breakfast, Elfreda. I have something to tell you." The stout girl's eyes narrowed. She glanced about the table and saw Virginia Gaines watching her with a disagreeable smile.
The three other members had thereupon insisted on being included in the vow, and when the five girls trotted to their respective positions at the sound of the referee's whistle, it was with a determination to stoutly contest every inch of the ground. Luck seemed against them, however, for the sophomores scored through the clever playing of Virginia Gaines.
On the 30th of June, General Gaines and Governor Reynolds signed a treaty of capitulation and peace, with Black Hawk, Pa-she-pa-how, Wee-sheat, Kah-ke-ka-mah, and other chiefs and head men of the British band of Sac Indians, and their old allies of the Winnebago, Pottawatamie and Kickapoo nations. The preamble to this treaty is worthy of preservation. It is in these words.
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