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"A Corporal from my Headquarters?" repeated the General, beginning to understand. "That's another development of that irrepressible Shorty." And he called: "Corp'l Elliott." "Yes, sir," responded Shorty, appearing at the door and saluting. "Did you raid the establishment of a person named" "Eph Glick," supplied the Provost-Marshal. "Yes, Ephraim Glick.
Shorty sprang up and gave a rib-breaking kick to the prostrate Eph Glick. The crowd inside at first recoiled at the sight of the soldiers, but, frightened for his own safety, Billings shouted, as he sheltered himself behind the altar: "Don't give way, men. There's only a few o' them. Draw your revolvers and shoot down the scum. Drive 'em away."
By good fortune, however, Crawford caught Plummer off his guard and fired upon him with a rifle, breaking his right arm. Plummer's friends called in Dr. Glick, the best physician in Bannack, to treat the wounded man, warning him that if he told anything about the visit he would be shot down.
Glick, to reciprocate this courtesy, appointed Martin to a vacant judgeship in the Topeka judicial district; and a whisky case came before Judge Martin. The principal witness undertook to play the usual dodge of perjury and equivocation, but Judge Martin stopped the witness and said: "Sir, you are to tell whether the liquor you bought was whisky."
That evening the Provost-Marshal came into Headquarters, and said: "I'm sorry, General, that you felt that Click place so bad that you were compelled to take personal action. I have known for some time that something ought to be done, but I've been trying to collect evidence that would hold Glick on a criminal charge, so that I could turn him over to the civil authorities."
"I do not understand what you mean, Colonel," answered the General. "I mean that Glick place that was raided by your orders today." "I gave no orders to raid any place. I have left all those matters in your hands, Colonel, with entire confidence that you would do the right thing." "Why, one of my Sergeants reported that a Corporal came from your Headquarters, and directed the raid to be made."
I would see a clear space and the first thing I knew Glick would come from behind somewhere, or somebody, and would hit me when I least expected it, and he usually hit me good and hard. It seemed sometimes that he came right out of the ground. I tell you after he hit me a few times he was the only man I was looking for; I did not care much about the rest of the team.
His brethren of the Democratic persuasion wanted to make him a candidate for Governor, but because they would not insert in their platform a plank affirming that the law because it was the law ought to be enforced, he declined to accept the nomination, and Geo. W. Glick was nominated and elected. Then Mr.
Shorty happened to be looking at another man that minute, and did not at first catch the drift of Billings's remarks. When he did, he hesitated an instant whether to whistle or try to get out. Before he could decide, Eph Glick, whom he had raided at Jeffersonville, struck him a heavy blow on the side of his head and yelled: "He's a traitor! He's a spy! Kill the infernal, egg-suckin' hound!"
"There goes that unhung rascal, Eph Glick," he said to himself, "that orter be wearin' a striped suit, and breakin' stone in the penitentiary. He's runnin' a reg'lar dead-fall down the street, there, and he's got a couple o' green recruits in tow, steerin' them to where he kin rob 'em of their pay and bounty. They won't have a cent left in two hours.
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