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You will find friends in Columbus, many of them, who will be delighted to meet you.” When Columbus was reached, Calhoun, on advice of Mr. Pettis, bought a suit of citizen’s clothes, for, said he, “We Knights hate the sight of that uniform; it’s the badge of tyranny.” Calhoun saw that he had found a friend indeed in Mr. Pettis.
He had been informed by Miss True Pettis the week before on which train to expect his niece. Carrying her bag and followed dejectedly by the huge mastiff, Ruth started down the long platform. The conductor ran out of the station, signalled the train crew with his hand, and lanterns waved the length of the train. Panting, with its huge springs squeaking, the locomotive started the string of cars.
One fellow his name was Phil Pettis was skunkin' mean enough to read a note Jud sent down oncet an' tell about it roun' Skyland; but that was the only time any of 'em ever done anything like that, fer Jud jest laid fer Phil an' went through him like a buzz-saw an' chucked him inter the flume. "No, it didn't kill Phil, but he got tol'able well used up.
She hardly knew enough to question this queer specimen, and so she turned to Marian Pettis. "Miss Pettis, can you explain to him? I can hardly tell him what we wish to know. And, if the mine is found, half of it will be yours, you know." "Mine! Lord sakes, I ain't counting on it. You gotta fat chance to find it.
"Mr. Pettis will attend promptly to all law business confided to him. "N.B. New York City is estimated to contain 5,000 Runaway Slaves. Probably Job had even more servants than Abraham. See Job. i. 3, 14-19, and xlii. 12. That his thousands of servants staid with him entirely of their own accord, is proved by the fact of their staying with him.
Sick, shaken, and disgusted, he strode through the pool room and, with deliberation masking his avid desire for forgetfulness, climbed the stairs to the hidden oasis presided over by his old enemy, Snake Murphy. Mademoiselle was having a series of enlivening shocks. First came Wilding, with Miss Pettis.
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