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It became more palpable after this; his voice, when he did speak, was fretful, irritable, his lips compressed; he stopped at a village-well to drink, as though his mouth were parched. "How old is that house, the Gurneys?" he asked, affecting carelessness, to baffle the curious inspection of McKinstry. "The Fort?
This was a very proud garrison, and the men vied with each other in dress and general appearance on the streets and public thoroughfares of the city. It was commanded by General Sir George Brown. We said good-bye to Colonel Franklin, and Major McKinstry was gazetted lieutenant-colonel and to command the battalion. The colonel was well liked by all ranks.
After some desultory conversation, he threw out the question: "What does martial law do?" "Well," said Major McKinstry, the provost-marshal, "I can explain the whole thing in a second. Martial law does pretty much as it d n pleases." Before the year was ended the inhabitants of St. Louis learned that the major's assertion was not far from the truth. Conduct of the St. Louis Secessionists.
"But, Paw," said Cressy, laying her hand languidly on her father's sleeve without the least change of color or amused expression. "This gentleman has come over here on a compromise." "On a WHICH?" said McKinstry, glancing scornfully out of the door for some rare species of mustang vaguely suggested to him in that unfamiliar word. "To see if we couldn't come to some fair settlement," said Stacey.
Impossible, then, to be as old as the batrachian track that" A sudden howl brought him back to the present era. Loo was arguing her charge up to bed by a syllogism applied at the right time in the right place. The old man held his hands to his ears with a patient smile, until McKinstry was out of hearing.
"We ought to help those men and be in the thick of the fight." Old McKinstry said: "Don't you see, boys, why we don't advance? Because it's all nonsense and folly. We have no orders to go ahead, and Rogers knows it's nothing but murder to put us up before that wall to be shot down. We're doing the best work where we are. See me take off that officer with the white coat."
McKinstry was slowly returning from a lugubrious recital of her moods and feelings at the parson's. As she crossed the barren flat and reached the wooded upland midway between the school-house and the ranch, she saw before her the old familiar figure of Seth Davis lounging on the trail.
Whether she was only withheld from attempting a reconciliation herself through lack of tact and opportunity remains to be seen. For the present she encouraged Masters's attentions under a new and vague idea that a flirtation which distracted Cressy from her studies was displeasing to McKinstry and inimical to his plans. Blindly ignorant of Mr.
They were bare years, the forty he had known: Fate had drained them tolerably dry before she flung them to him to accomplish duty in; the duty was done now. McKinstry, a mild, common-faced man, had gone through it for nearly half a century, pleasantly, never called it heroism. It was done.
"Hiram allowed to go over to the schoolhouse and see you this mornin'," said Mrs. McKinstry, after a pause; "but I reckon ez how he had to look up stock on the river. The cattle are that wild this time o' year, huntin' water, and hangin' round the tules, that my men are nigh worrited out o' their butes with 'em.
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