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Moreover, it was clearly a vulgar, cold-blooded attempt on McBane's part to use his power over him for a personal advantage. "Well, now, Captain McBane," returned Delamere diplomatically, "I've never put any one up yet, and it's not regarded as good form for so young a member as myself to propose candidates. I'd much rather you'd ask some older man."
McBane's death was merciful, compared with the nameless horrors he had heaped upon the hundreds of helpless mortals who had fallen into his hands during his career as a contractor of convict labor. Sobered by this culminating tragedy, the mob shortly afterwards dispersed.
They're all alike, they're a scrub race, an affliction to the country, and the quicker we're rid of 'em all the better." Carteret had nothing to say by way of dissent. McBane's sentiments, in their last analysis, were much the same as his, though he would have expressed them less brutally.
It plunged the nation into a bloody war, and it will trouble the American government and the American conscience until a sustained attempt is made to settle it upon principles of justice and equity. The personal ambitions entertained by the leaders of this movement are but slightly involved in this story. McBane's aims have been touched upon elsewhere.
He could hear the major, now and then, use the word "negro," and McBane's deep voice was quite audible when he referred, it seemed to Jerry with alarming frequency, to "the damned niggers," while the general's suave tones now and then pronounced the word "niggro," a sort of compromise between ethnology and the vernacular.
"Oh, well," replied McBane, "just as you say, only I thought you had cut your eye teeth." Delamere was not pleased with McBane's tone. His remark was not acquiescent, though couched in terms of assent. There was a sneering savagery about it, too, that left Delamere uneasy. He was, in a measure, in McBane's power.
He did not like McBane's manner, it was characterized by a veiled insolence which was exceedingly offensive. He would go over to the club and try his luck with some honest player, perhaps something might turn up to relieve him from his embarrassment. He put his hand in his pocket mechanically, and found it empty! In the present state of his credit, he could hardly play without money.
Opening the sheet the general read aloud an editorial article, to which Carteret listened intently, his indignation increasing in strength from the first word to the last, while McBane's face grew darkly purple with anger. The article was a frank and somewhat bold discussion of lynching and its causes.
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