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I wouldn't be in yore shoes for no money when Tex comes around an' remembers what yuh done?" "I reckon I can take care of m'self," retorted Jessup. "It ain't Tex's game to be took up for no murder yet awhile." Without further comment he gathered up most of Stratton's belongings and departed for the corral. Buck took his hand-bag and, leaving the cabin, limped slowly down to the creek.
They were up at dawn, ate a hurried breakfast, and then set out along the trail. Where the Rocking-R track branched off they paused for a few casual words of farewell, and then each went his way. A few hundred yards beyond, Buck turned in his saddle just in time to see Jessup, leading Stratton's old mount, ride briskly into a shallow draw and disappear.
Early in the war the disbursing agent reported that there were only three thousand Indians, including Negroes, to be considered; but this was clearly an understatement. Within the next year and a half the Indians were hard pressed, and before the end of this period the notorious Thomas S. Jessup had appeared on the scene as commanding major general.
At that time General Zachary Taylor had assembled a couple of regiments of infantry and one of dragoons at Fort Jessup, Louisiana, and had orders to extend military protection to Texas against the Indians, or a "foreign enemy," the moment the terms of annexation were accepted.
I suffered her therefore to run on in a tedious and minute detail of the capricious, peevish, and captious deportment of Miss Jessup. After the rhetoric of half an hour, all was wound up, in a kind of satirical apology, with, "No wonder; for the girl was over head and ears in love, and her man would have nothing to say to her.
Even Euphemia and young Mr. Jessup, who had come down together in a mutual agony of embarrassment, began to pluck up spirit and hazard occasional remarks, and finally even joined in the laughter at Dolly's witticism. People lower down the table glanced up across the various dishes, and envied the group who seemed to set the general heaviness and discontent at defiance.
Then he remembered that for all he knew she might not be the only one of her sex on the Shoe-Bar, and when the meal was over and the men were straggling back toward the bunk-house, he put the question to Bud Jessup, who walked beside him. "Huh?" grunted the youngster, with a sharp, inquiring glance at his face. "What d'yuh want to know that for?" Stratton shrugged his shoulders.
Between the old masters and us something has happened. What? Why Speed, sir modern civilisation has discovered Speed. Railways telegraphs 'phones elevators automobiles Atlantic records. These inventions, sir" here as will happen to Americans when they philosophise, Mr. Jessup slipped into an oratorical style "have altered man's whole environment.
"We suspected Haverford, of the first class, of that, because Jessup, on guard, challenged Haverford when Haverford was trying to run the guard after taps." "Haverford nothing," retorted Furlong. "He's above such jobs. No, sir! This afternoon Jessup ran plumb into Mr. Ellis when that little beast bunkie of the other beast, Mr.
"You needn't be scared for fear you've lost your bargain," remarked Miss Vilda sarcastically. "There ain't so many places open to the boy that he'll turn his back on this one, I guess!" Yet, though the days of chivalry were over, that was precisely what Timothy Jessup had done.
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