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Updated: June 15, 2025
Then there was a smile here, a chuckle there, an incredulous laugh, and Hence Sturgill, "bully of the Pocket," rose from the wagon-tongue, closed his knife, came slowly forward, and cackled his scorn straight up into the teeth of Captain Mayhall Wells. The captain looked down and began to shed his coat. "I take it, Hence Sturgill, that you air laughin' at me?"
Flitter Bill dropped his blinking eyes to the paper in his hand that bore the commission of Jefferson Davis and the Confederate States of America to Mayhall Wells of Callahan, and went back into his store. He looked at it a long time and then he laughed, but without much mirth. Grass had little chance to grow for three weeks thereafter under the cowhide boots of Captain Mayhall Wells.
Like the handwriting of the order that lifted Mayhall like magic into power, the handwriting of this order, that dropped him like a stone was Flitter Bill's own. The missionary was young and she was from the North. Her brows were straight, her nose was rather high, and her eyes were clear and gray.
It brought Tallow Dick's head out of the barn door and made him grin. "Dick!" Flitter Bill's call was sharp and angry. "Yes, suh!" "Go tell ole Mayhall Wells that I ain't goin' to send him nary another pound o' bacon an' nary another tin cup o' meal no, by , I ain't." Half an hour later the negro stood before the ragged tent of the commander of the Army of the Callahan.
"Well, I'm sorry to hear that, suh sorry to hear it, suh," he said, with slow, measured speech. "My men are comin' in fast, and you can hardly realize er er what it means to an old soldier er er not to have er " And Mayhall's answering wink was portentous. "My friend here is from over in Kaintucky, and the Harlan Home Gyard over there, he says, is a-making some threats." Mayhall laughed.
Flitter Bill knew that that he could get together every loafer between the county-seat of Wise and the county-seat of Lee but he only said encouragingly: "Good!" "An' we air to pertect the property I am to pertect the property of the Confederate citizens of the valley that means you, Misto Richmond, and this store." Bill nodded. Mayhall coughed slightly. "There is one thing in the way, I opine.
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