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Updated: June 18, 2025


"I was offered one at Holton's for seventy-five; but I did not like it. I will give you a hundred for yours." "It is too little, indeed, sir: that carriage cost three hundred dollars when it was new. It was in use a very short time. I allowed a hundred and forty dollars for it myself." "Well, sir, I would not wish you to sell at a disadvantage, but if you like to, accept of my offer I'll take it.

The excitement, all around them, was intensifying, every minute. Jockeys, now, were mounting their horses, and riding off for the short canter to the judges' stand. As each appeared in view of the great crowd in and about the grand-stand a mighty shout arose. Holton's smile was broadening. "If that jockey doesn't show up mighty quick," he sneered, "you're out of the race."

He would have been as much astonished as dismayed had he known that Holton's almost instant action, upon arriving at the county-seat, had been to make a visit to the local chief of the Revenue-Service cautiously, at night, for to be known as an informer might have cost his life at other hands than Lorey's, would have made the mountain for far miles blaze vividly with wrath against him.

Holton, paying no attention to him, had gone on to the stable-door and tried it. Finding it to be fast locked, he turned back toward the darkey. "The door's locked, Neb," he said. "Knowed dat afore, suh," Neb replied. Holton was nettled by his nonchalance. "Open that door!" he ordered. "Not widout Marse Holton's ohduhs, suh," Neb answered calmly. "What do you mean?" demanded Holton, angrily.

The excitement of the moment may have sharpened the girl's wits, or, possibly, its hint of peril may have brought to Holton's face some detail of expression, which, during recent weeks, had not before appeared upon it. "But I kin," she said, slowly. "I war right in what I thought when I first saw you in th' mountings. I had seen your face afore!"

"I won't waste words on you," he said, "but think twice before you make me such a proposition again." Holton's wrath rose vividly. "Damn him!" he muttered as he walked away. "I'll pay him back for that! I'll get that gal's land in spite of him, and I won't stop at that. I'll pay him back for ... everythin'! I'll teach him what it air to stir the hate o' hell in a man's heart!"

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