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Updated: June 21, 2025
Keep straight ahead an' you'll strike a cross-country road in 'bout a quarter of a mile. It leads you to the Potomac, an' I reckon from now on you'll have to take care of yourselves." Lankford melted away in the darkness as he rode back up the gorge, and the troop went on at a good pace across a country, half field, half forest.
Sherburne and Harry were satisfied that no Union horseman had either seen or heard them, and they followed Lankford with absolute confidence. Now and then the hoofs of a stumbling horse would grind on the stones, but there was no other noise save the steady marching of two hundred men through water. The things that Lankford had asserted continued to come true.
A half mile from the crossin' ahead it runs through steep, high banks that come right down to its edges, but the creek bottom is smooth enough for the horses. I 'low I make myself plain enough, don't I, Mr. Captain?" "You do, Mr. Lankford, and you're an angel in homespun. Without you we could never do what we want to do. Lead the way to that blessed creek.
Lankford, I should like you to deduct only one-half of what I owe you for those furs I took from you, from this week's wages. My family are in want of a good many things; and I am particularly desirous of buying a barrel of flour to-night." "Say nothing of that, John. Let it be forgotten with your past misdeeds.
"If I have signed the pledge, and if I am really determined to be a reformed man, will you give me work, Mr. Lankford!" The old man thought for a few moments, and then said, half-sorrowfully "I am afraid of you, John. You are such an old offender on the score of drunkenness, that I have no confidence in your power to keep the pledge."
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