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I began to see visions of the gallows and the hangman's rope. He recovered his self-possession, and when he found he was not hurt, his fear turned to anger. He threw the rifle barrel out into the street, and then drove me out of the shop. When I got outside and my fear had left me, I sat down on an old wagon tongue and laughed until I was entirely out of breath.
Marston knit his brows, and rode on for some minutes in silence. At length he said, abruptly "In this, it seems to me, sir, you a little exceeded your commission." "How so, my dear sir?" asked the clergyman. "Why, sir," answered Marston, "the man may possibly change his mind before the day of trial, and it is the hangman's office, not yours, my good sir, to fasten the halter about his neck.
I left that land of darkness as soon as possible for this free Kansas, and I have my family with me, for which I thank my Deliverer from the jaws of the lion of oppression, and praise the Lord of hosts for a free country, where I can vote as well as preach according to the dictates of my own conscience without the torturing whip or the hangman's rope."
"I have heard you, Master Tressilian," said he, "without interruption, and I bless God that my ears were never before made to tingle by the words of so frontless a villain. The task of chastising you is fitter for the hangman's scourge than the sword of a nobleman, but yet Villain, draw and defend thyself!"
"Ye'll find him in here, captain; but dinna stay ower long wi' him; for, ye ken, I'm breakin' the rule in letting ye see the lad." "All right, Jimmy!" said a voice that I at once recognized as that of Captain Flett. "Well, Ericson, my lad," he said, entering the cell and offering me his hand. "They've not put the hangman's rope round your neck yet, I see."
Again David's mind flashed back, recalling her defense of Carmin Fanchet when he had first told her his story of the woman whose brother he had brought to the hangman's justice. There could be but one conclusion. Marie-Anne knew Carmin Fanchet, and she also knew she was on the raft with St. Pierre. As cooler judgment returned to him, Carrigan refused to concede more than that.
Such language as this, coming, as it did, from one who had shed the blood of a fellow-creature upon very slight provocation; who had been tried for murder, and acquitted because the crime was sanctioned by the usages of society; and who, moreover, in the estimation of many people, richly deserved the hangman's noose such language, under the circumstances, was not merely injudicious and unfeeling, but positively revolting.
The proprietor proved to be an old friend, Jones, the storekeeper at Hangman's. "Which," said Johnny shrewdly, "is a sad commentary on the decline of the diggings at Hangman's." Jones was evidently prosperous, and doing business on a much larger scale than at the old place; for in his commodious building were quantities of goods displayed and many barrels and boxes still unopened.
George's recovery, when the doctors had given up all hope, was sufficiently marvellous to suggest the idea that a certain power had determined on the hangman's principle, perhaps to give him the longest of ropes; but it could in reality be traced to a more terrestrial influence namely, Lady Bellamy's nursing.
"It's too long in the fust place," commented Ike Hoe; "it bothers a man to git his mouth around it and it hain't any music, like the other names such as Starvation Kenyon, Hangman's Noose, Blizzard Gorge and the rest. I stick to mine as the purtiest of all." "What's that?" "'Blazes, short and sweet and innercent like." Landlord Ortigies was leaning with both elbows on the bar.
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