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Rosemary, facing the others over the back of her chair, nodded. Ann had her arms about her knees. They were all idle. "She got Dad to give me my horse," the boy went on, "and she'll get him to let us go off to the Greers' next month you'll see! I can't think how she does it." "I can remember the first day she came here," said Rosemary. She rested her chin in her hands; her eyes were dreamy.
The Sheriff, E.S. Stover, was summoned and was in the act of taking the men to jail when a shot was fired from a loft of the Barth house, where a number of Mexicans had established themselves. The bullet, possibly intended for a Greer, passed through the patriarch's head and neck, killing him instantly. The Greers were threatened with lynching, but were saved by the sheriff's determination.
A white-coated steward now appeared on deck, moving near the lieutenant commander. "Is dinner ready, Greers?" called Mr. Mayhew. "Yes, sir." "Lay two more plates, then. Mr. Farnum, I trust you and your young submarine commander will sit as my guests to-night."
The Greers had been unpopular with the Mexicans since they had marked a Mexican with an ear "underslope," as cattle are marked, this after a charge that their victim had been found in the act of stealing a Greer colt. The fight that followed the Greer entry had nothing at its initiation to do with the Mormon settlers.
It was declared that several thousand shots had been fired, but there was a lull, in which the part of peacemaker was taken up by "Father" Nathan C. Tenney, a pioneer of Woodruff and father of Ammon M. Tenney. He walked to the house and induced the Greers to surrender.
A white-coated steward now appeared on deck, moving near the lieutenant commander. “Is dinner ready, Greers?” called Mr. Mayhew. “Yes, sir.” “Lay two more plates, then. Mr. Farnum, I trust you and your young submarine commander will sit as my guests to-night.”
The Peaks and the Greers owned respectively houses in Beacon Street and in Washington Square. They came every summer to the island, and it was thus that Anthony and Nancy grew up together, and at last became engaged. As I have said, I am twenty years older than Nancy, and I am her cousin.
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