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Thinking of no harm, he turned slowly to greet the one approaching, to find himself confronted by the tall figure of Fret Offut. A look of wild fierceness was on the other's features, and before Jack could speak his arms were uplifted, swinging overhead a belaying pin.
Fret Offut promised very solemnly to all that Jack asked, and the couple started on their hazardous journey into the interior of the country which was about to become the battleground of three nations. They received a warm welcome at the railroad company's office as soon as the object of their call was known.
He did not offer to speak to Jack, but the latter soon saw him holding whispered conversations with Mires and the second boss, Furniss, when he felt certain by their looks and motions that he was the subject of their remarks. Once he overheard Offut tell a companion: "I sha'n't wheel scrap iron always and Jack North won't be boss, either."
Fret Offut did not have the opportunity to finish his sentence before a stout hand was laid on his shoulder and he was plunged headfirst into the river. "Get out the best you can!" cried Jack North. He turned to the girl. "Has he dared so much as to lay a ringer on you, Jenny?" "Oh, Jack! I am so glad to see you!
The foreman was turning back into the shop, followed by Jack, and the crowd was rapidly dispersing. "Hold on!" he bawled, "that wasn't fair. I tripped stop, Henshaw! don't let my job go to that miserable thief." Getting no reply to his foolish speech, Offut followed the others into the shop.
The spectators cheered heartily, while Mr. Henshaw clapped his grimy hands and shouted at the top of his voice: "Well done, my hearty! That's a handsome trick and well worth a job." Fret Offut arose from his unwelcome bath, dripping from head to foot with the nasty mess, presenting a most unprepossessing appearance.
Had Jack known the truth, known the frequent and long conversations his deceitful companion had held with the plotting Furniss, and how the latter had worked to get Offut sent on this voyage with him, our hero would have felt different toward the other.
After the cabin was finished, he split enough rails to build a fence around the farm. Some of the new neighbors hired him to split logs for them. The following spring, he was offered other work that he liked much better. A man named Denton Offut was building a flatboat, which he planned to float down the Illinois River to the Mississippi and on to New Orleans. He hired Abe to help with the cargo.
John Hanks and Lincoln's half-brother, John Johnston, accompanied him on the trip. While in New Orleans he first saw men and women sold as slaves, and as every instinct of his nature revolted at the spectacle, he said to John Hanks: "If ever I get a chance to hit that institution, I'll hit it hard." Returning from New Orleans, he went to New Salem to clerk in the store of Denton Offut.
This seemed the truth, when, at last, Jack came in sight of the low-walled and scattering buildings belonging to John Fowler & Co., engine builders. Fret Offut was nowhere in sight, as Jack entered the dark, dingy office at the lower end of the buildings. A small sized man, with mutton chop side whiskers, engaged in overhauling a pile of musty papers, looked up at the entrance of our hero.
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