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Benson gives the word and accompanies me," replied the girl, white but courageous. "Then we won't waste more time," laughed the wretch, harshly. "Since you will stay, then you must be a witness of what you have brought on my worst foe! Close in, men get him!" As the men sprang to obey, and Jack dodged nimbly back, Daisy Huston uttered a piercing scream. The next thing she did was wholly natural.
Huston, "were loaded with irons; their children were carried off and scattered through the Roman Catholic districts; their wives and daughters were violated, massacred, or made captives. As for those that still remained, all whom the enemy could seize became a prey devoted to carnage, spoliation, fire, excesses which cannot be told, and outrages which it would be impossible to describe."
"Why should men be the only ones who can do or dare for the Flag?" "Will you let me have the revolver, Miss Huston?" "Gladly." "Thank you. Now, if you will get inside he cab again." "And you?" "I'll sit with the driver and watch him," Jack kept his eye on the surly fellow until Miss Huston was inside the cab.
Witness the testimony of one of the most gallant Indian fighters of the border, who was in Wheeling at the time; letter of Col. Ebenezer Zane, February 4, 1800, in Jefferson MSS. Jefferson MSS. Deposition of John Gibson, April 4, 1800. Do. Deposition of Wm. Huston, April 19, 1798; also depositions of Samuel McKee, etc. "Am. Archives," IV., Vol. I., p. 468.
"I shall never care for the man again. I have wrenched him from my heart in these last few minutes. So you may ask me any questions that will help to clear up the matter." "Thank you, Miss Huston. Then did Graves, or Millard, as I call him, express any hope of becoming suddenly well to do?" "Yes; and now I can understand how he has lied to me.
Benson, you have been wrapped in so much mystery, so much deceit, so much lying and treachery that I won't even have you guess whether I am telling you the truth. Here is my card-case. Take out a card for yourself." The request was so much like a command that Benson obeyed. On the card, in Old English script, he read: "Miss Daisy Huston."
All this while the four men who had just come from the house were stealthily grouping themselves. Jack watched them alertly. He did not intend to be taken unawares, yet he hesitated to draw his pistol while Miss Huston was there. "Go, girl!" Millard ordered again. "I have told you, already, that I shall go only when Mr.
These ambassadors and diplomatists were Martizez Della Rosa, the ambassador of Spain, with the Secretary of the Embassy, M. Arnao; the Duke d’Harcourt, ambassador of France; the Count de Spaur, ambassador of Bavaria; the Baron Venda Cruz, ambassador of Portugal, with the Commandant Huston; the Count Boutenieff, who represented at that time the Emperor of Russia and King of Poland; Figuereido, ambassador of Brazil; Liedekerke of Holland, and several other diplomatists, of whom not one was an Italian.
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