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Jack had been glad to notice that the unknown had used pure English in addressing him. In a moment he asked: "Who are you?" "A friendless American boy who has been hunted down like a dog because " "Fret Offut!" broke in Jack recognizing the other's voice. "Jack North!" gasped the fugitive "You have betrayed me, Jack!" "Not a bit of that. I am here on account of you."
"On our arrival I had intended to have wintered in one of the Indian houses, as the winter season was too far advanced for building, but Mr. Offut, the officer in charge of the H. B. Co.'s post on the island, kindly offered us a small house, in which goods had been stored, and as it was within 100 yards of the Indian encampment, I gladly accepted the offer.
He adopted most of Clay's principles as his own, especially that of the gradual, compensated emancipation of slaves, to which ideal he clung all his life. With such interests, it was natural that when Offut failed and his job as store clerk ended, he should announce himself as a candidate for the legislature. His campaign was interrupted by the Black Hawk War. Lincoln volunteered.
"The firm want me to go, and they will pay me well for my services. I am to look after some machinery that is to be shipped." "But you will come back?" questioned Jenny, anxiously. "Sure, as soon as my task is done. But now tell me about Fret Offut." "Oh, there is not much to tell. He he wanted to be sweet on me and and I wouldn't have it.
Offut. Abe Lincoln is one of the best fellows that ever lived a rough diamond just out of the great mine of the West, that only needs to be cut and polished." Denton Offut's store was a small log structure about twenty by twenty which stood near the brow of the hill east of Rutledge's Tavern.
Pearce was not pleased with the appearance of young Offut he did not show it, though he told Jack privately that it might be best for all concerned if they should leave the island as soon as an opportunity offered itself. "You see another searching party may come at any hour, and I might not be as successful with another, particularly with two to answer for."
Thus when young Offut crowded him back against the wall of the building, and every one present felt sure he must be overpowered, Jack set his lips more firmly together and renewed his resistance with redoubled effort.
I don't want any quarrel with you, but I am as good as you." "Are yer?" demanded the fiery Offut, whose greatest delight seemed to be in provoking a quarrel. "I can lick you out of your boots, and I will do it before I will let you get in here." By this time Mr.
But he was willingly allowed to start after the relief party with the engine and one car, accompanied by a dozen armed men. They were approaching the bridge mentioned, when they met the others coming back, bearing in their midst the lifeless form of Fret Offut. Jack immediately stopped to have the body of his associate put on the car, when he started on the return to Resaca.
Denton was so proud of his clerk that he could not help boasting. "Abe is the smartest man in the United States," he said. "Yes, and he can beat any man in the country running, jumping, or wrastling." A bunch of young roughnecks lived a few miles away in another settlement called Clary Grove. "That Denton Offut talks too much with his mouth," they said angrily.
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