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A pause under the open window, high above the ground, of the room where slept Moreno's wife and daughter, if they slept at all, told him that all was silence there if not slumber, and then he joined his superior. "That fellow was of the right sort, sergeant," said Plummer. "I wish we had one or two like him." "I wish we had, sir; those Greasers are worse than no guards at all.
Surely a girl would not shrink from her uncle in this manner, not from a big, kindly uncle like Plummer. "I wanted to get down to Chicago and hear you at your first speech," went on "King" Plummer, in his big, booming voice, that filled the room, "but I couldn't manage it.
She is a woman who likes to wear a lot of jewelry, and, by Jupiter, she can do it now if she likes, for she owns more diamonds than the Astors. "Mr. and Mrs. Pond live in Cleveland. Mrs. Pond, as I've told you, is now visiting her father. You know he bought the old Plummer place on the shore of Hempstead Harbor, Long Island. "She has been with him about two weeks.
Because of this unexampled run he was sometimes described by unthinking people as a one-part actor. Nothing could be farther from the truth. He possessed uncommon versatility. That after twenty years of the new Rip Van Winkle, when he was past fifty years of age, he could come back to such parts as Caleb Plummer and Acres is proof of this. He need not have done so at all.
Henry Plummer A Northern Bad Man The Head of the Robber Band in the Montana Mining Country A Man of Brains and Ability, but a Cold-Blooded Murderer. Henry Plummer was for several years in the early '60's the "chief" of the widely extended band of robbers and murderers who kept the placer-mining fields of Montana and Idaho in a state of terror.
They were all practically freed; and after that the roughs grew bolder than ever. The Plummer band swore to kill every man who had served in that court, whether as juryman or officer. So well did they make good their threat that out of the twenty-seven men thus engaged all but seven were either killed or driven out of the country, nine being murdered outright.
Plummer looked up from his game, at this speech; but said nothing. "Then you don't doubt that I really saw it?" I asked, with a certain surprise. "Not me," he remarked, with assurance. "You hain't likely ter make that kind of mistake three times runnin'." "No," I said. "I know I saw the light, right enough; but" I hesitated a moment "it's blessed queer." "It is blessed queer!" he agreed.
"No one knows; the soldiers killed a number of them in battle, but whether the slain were those who ambushed the train is not decided in border history." "I think I understand the rest of the story of Mr. Plummer and Miss Morgan," said Harley. "Yes, it is not hard to guess. Mr.
"I have the right," he added, "because you are mine now. Last night Mr. Plummer, of his own free will and volition, gave you to me." "Good old daddy!" she murmured. At last came the great day which was to tell whether their efforts were a brilliant success or a dire failure there was no middle ground and the special train took them to the small city in which the candidate lived.
On the 6th, General Pope telegraphed that Colonel Plummer had not yet been able to effect his lodgement at Point Pleasant, but that the sharpshooters were trying to drive the artillerymen of the gunboats from their pieces.
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