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The third pistol, which contained two balls, was very similar in form and size to the pair. Hatchie extracted the balls from this one, and loaded the pair with one ball each, leaving the unmatched one blank. They then carefully conveyed them to Vernon's state-room, and placed them on the trunk precisely as they had found them. As had been premised, the Chalmetta arrived at Natchez about daylight.
"Sorry to disoblige you, sir," said Hatchie, with an affectation of civility; "but I must have the key." "I have not the key; it is lost. If I had, you should struggle for it." "You will pardon me for doubting your word. I must satisfy myself." "Help! help!" shouted the attorney, as his tormentor proceeded to put his threat in execution. This was a contingency for which Hatchie was not prepared.
Hatchie's curiosity prompted many inquiries, which drew from the talkative Hibernian a full description of the boxes that contained the coffins, and many particulars relative to the transportation of them. Pat's description of the boxes suggested to Hatchie the means of getting to Cincinnati. "Could you get me a box like those which contain these coffins?" asked he.
His first impulse was to rise and rush to her assistance; but of his inability to do this he was painfully reminded in his attempt to rise. The heavy fall of Vernon on the floor, and the voice of Hatchie, assured him that, whatever the affair might be, it had assumed a new phase.
Again the attorney hesitated, and again Hatchie pulled the rope till he was ready to answer. "Is it a forgery?" said Hatchie, slackening the rope. "Probably it is," replied Maxwell. "Who wrote it?" "De Guy." "This De Guy is a most consummate villain, and shall yet be brought to justice. But how came it in your possession?" "I received it from De Guy, as the agent of Mr. Dumont.
Hatchie, having satisfied himself that the prisoners were all safe, left them under guard of the woodmen, and returned to the chamber of the sick man; and, at the doctor's urgent request, Emily left Henry to his care. "Friar Can you forgive? Elmore. As I would be forgiven."
Emily sent one of the maids for Hatchie; but she returned in a few moments, accompanied by Jaspar, who, hearing her inquiries for the man his rifle-ball had sent to the other world, had come to prevent any injurious surmises.
The mulatto's blows produced no serious effect upon the heads of the two villains, and, recovering from the surprise and shock the act had occasioned, they lost not a moment in pursuing their assailant. Hatchie directed his course to the river, and scarcely a moment had elapsed before he heard the steps of his pursuers.
He had come in on my right flank from the direction of the Hatchie River, pell-mell with our picket-post stationed about three miles out on the Ripley road.
There were twenty men, including Hatchie, all armed with rifle and bowie-knife, and every one anxious for the fight to commence. Besides their arms, each man was provided with a small cord, and a torch of pitch-wood, the end of which had been plentifully besprinkled with turpentine. The party was composed mostly of woodmen and boatmen, who had promptly and willingly obeyed the doctor's summons.
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