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Since then McBane had devoted himself to politics: he was ambitious for greater wealth, for office, and for social recognition. A man of few words and self-engrossed, he seldom spoke of his aspirations except where speech might favor them, preferring to seek his ends by secret "deals" and combinations rather than to challenge criticism and provoke rivalry by more open methods.
He walked over to the white passenger, with whom he was evidently acquainted, since he addressed him by name. "Captain McBane," he said, "it's against the law for you to ride in the nigger car." "Who are you talkin' to?" returned the other. "I'll ride where I damn please." "Yes, sir, but the colored passenger objects. I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to go into the smoking-car."
The following afternoon McBane met Delamere at the hotel, and bluntly requested the latter to propose him for membership in the Clarendon Club. Delamere was annoyed at this request. His aristocratic gorge rose at the presumption of this son of an overseer and ex-driver of convicts.
"Infamous infamous!" exclaimed Carteret, his voice trembling with emotion. "The paper should be suppressed immediately." "The impudent nigger ought to be horsewhipped and run out of town," growled McBane.
It is a murderous and fatal assault upon a woman of our race, upon our race in the person of its womanhood, its crown and flower. If such crimes are not punished with swift and terrible directness, the whole white womanhood of the South is in danger." "Burn the nigger," repeated McBane automatically. "Neither is this a mere sporadic crime," Carteret went on.
Like a wedge he dashed through the mob, which parted instinctively before him, and all oblivious of the rain of lead which fell around him, reached the point where Captain McBane, the bravest man in the party, stood waiting to meet him. A pistol-flame flashed in his face, but he went on, and raising his powerful right arm, buried his knife to the hilt in the heart of his enemy.
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