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What we want is to capture them and to do that we've got to have more men. Alf, I tell you what you do. You and your friend slip over to old Josh's and keep watch to see that they don't get away, and I'll ride as fast as I can and get General Lundsford and your daddy. What do you say?" "I say it's a first-rate plan," Alf answered.
Etheredge don't like Alf and will spend every cent he's got; and here we are without money. Yes, they'll hang him." "But General Lundsford won't he stand as Alf's friend?" The old man shook his head. "He can't, and I don't know that he would if he could. I mean that he can't and still be true to himself.
That is why I am here now to set myself right." "In matters of business we may correct an error, Mr. Lundsford; we may rub out one figure and put down another, but a mark made upon the heart is likely to remain there." "I will not attempt to bandy sentimentalities with you, sir.
Jucklin, gathering up white garments that had been spread to dry upon the althea bushes. "Chyd Lundsford has come," she said, and I replied: "Yes, I know it." I stepped upon the passage and passed the sitting-room door without looking in; I sat down in a rocking chair that had been placed near the stair-way, sat there and listened to a girl's laugh and the low mumble of a man's voice.
You remember that girl that came out upon the gallery. I know you do, for no man could forget her. You know that Guinea asked me if Millie was at home. Well, that was Millie Lundsford, the old General's daughter. We have lived close together all our lives, but I have never known her very well, and even now I wouldn't go there on a dead-set visit.
"Now, it may be putty hard for you to understand the situation, and I'm free to say that I can't make it so very plain, but I'll do the best I can. One day, a long time ago, old General Lundsford came to me long after I had wallowed him, you understand. And now as to that wallowin', why, he could have killed me if he had wanted to. He's game.
"Let us go out where it's cooler," I heard Guinea say, and I got up with my head in a whirl. "Mr. Hawes, this is Mr. Lundsford." "Glad to meet you, sir," I said, taking hold of something his hand, I suppose.
And I recognized it as a place that I had seen earlier in the day. "It's where General Lundsford lives," said Alf, following my eyes with his own. "We go by there. He used to own a good many negroes and some of them still hang about him. Most of his land is poor, but enough of it is rich to make him well off. And proud! He's proud as a blooded horse.
The old man has never been whipped yet, I mean my father, and nobody ever saw his son knock under." The next morning, when with quick stride, to make up for an anxious lingering in the passage way, I hastened toward the school, I heard the gallop of a horse, and turning about, saw old General Lundsford coming like a dragoon.
We lost our brave general the old Earl of Lindsey, who was wounded and taken prisoner, and died of his wounds; Sir Edward Stradling, Colonel Lundsford, prisoners; and Sir Edward Verney and a great many gentlemen of quality slain.
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