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By the middle of the month, Lac Bain was hemmed in by the plague on all sides but the north. The post's trap-lines had been shortened; now they were abandoned entirely, and the great fight began. Williams assembled his men, and told them how that same battle had been fought nearly two decades before.
Here, however, she overshot the mark, for that young lady looked determinedly incredulous, dismissed her colored informant as no longer worthy of consideration, and, taking a light wrap from the hat-rack in the hall, tapped at Mrs. Post's door. "Will you kindly look after Mrs. Forrest a moment in case she should need anything? I will go to Major Miller's and investigate these stories.
Because people are that selfish and inconsiderate. The difficulty of getting down off of it all by himself, without a friendly supporting hand in the waistband of his trousers, was connected with the form of this post's head. It was not a disused twenty-four pounder with a shot in its muzzle, as so many posts are, but a real architectural post, cast from a pattern at the foundry.
Later on, it was paid to the community, for the breach of peace; and still later to the judge, or king, or lord, when they had appropriated to themselves the rights of the community. Post's Bausteine and Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, Oldenburg, 1887, vol. i. pp. 64 seq.; Kovalevsky, loc. cit. ii. 164-189.
Lewis was delighted to see us, had stayed only an hour in Weston, and there heard of our trip from Auguste, profanely called Gus, took the box of maple-sugar in charge at once, laughed at the boy-like direction without even a surname, and ended with recommending us to go at once to Miss Post's, on Broadway, where himself and his wife were at present boarding.
Williams's professional appraisement of the scoop proved not extravagant. The Post's five columns next morning threw the city into something like an uproar. It is doubtful if you would not have to go back to the '60's to find a newspaper story which eclipsed this one in effect.
He was very patient for the three days which he had allowed for the post to take his letter to Minna and bring back her answer; but when the fourth day had passed he began once more to find life difficult. He had no energy or interest in things, except during the hour before the post's arrival. Then he was trembling with impatience.
I had no doubt that a newspaper run to suit my own taste a combination of The World's editorial page with The Evening Post's news and make-up would lack the influence with which circulation alone can endow a paper, and would end in a bankruptcy highly creditable to its stockholders. This somewhat cynical outburst brought down upon me an overwhelming torrent of protest from Mr. Pulitzer.
A minute later it was broken by the hoofs of a horse galloping swiftly along the trail to Kiowa City. That winter Miss Post had been going out a great deal more than was good for her, and when the spring came she broke down. The family doctor recommended Aiken, but an aunt of Miss Post's, Mrs. Truesdall, had been at Farmington with Mrs. "Colonel" Bolland, and urged visiting her instead.
Williams' thick face went as white as the paper he held, as he read the words of the Churchill factor. "It means dig graves," he said. "That's the only preparation we can make!" He read the paper aloud to the men at Lac Bain, and every available man was detailed to spread the warning throughout the post's territory.
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