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Updated: June 16, 2025
Had he followed his immediate impulse he would have fled. But determining to learn if possible who the letter was for, he waited. "What numbah?" asked the negro. "Feefity-nine Main." The Italian restaurant! Another letter to Spanelli! The men he was after! Jack waited to hear no more, but tiptoeing back about the corner, was off for the woods, jubilant at his success.
Post No. 2 repeated this cry, and so it went around. One evening when our anxiety as to Atlanta was wrought to the highest pitch, one of the guards sang out: "Post numbah foah half past eight o'clock and Atlanta's gone t-o hell." The heart of every man within hearing leaped to his mouth. We looked toward each other, almost speechless with glad surprise, and then gasped out: "Did 'you hear THAT?"
"Are yo' interested in the San Felipe district?" "Very much," said The Kid, nodding. "I am quite attracted by Rattlesnake County, and " "This isn't Rattlesnake County, young man," corrected the land agent. "This is San Felipe County." "Oh, excuse me," murmured the Texan, "maybe I got that idea because of the lahge numbah of snakes " "There's no more snakes here than " the other began.
We waited in tense expectancy for the decision of the fates whether final victory or defeat should end the long and arduous campaign. At night the guards in the perches around the Stockade called out every half hour, so as to show the officers that they were awake and attending to their duty. The formula for this ran thus: "Post numbah 1; half-past eight o'clock, and a-l-l 's w-e-l-l!"
"Yas, sah; whole section vacant, sah, Numbah Five. Denvah; yas, sah, suttinly. Oh, I'll look after de lady all right. You ain't a-goin' 'long wid us, den, dis trip? Oh, yas; thank ye, sah. Sure, I'll see dat she gits dere, don't you worry none 'bout dat."
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