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Thomas, says that the Governor, who was inimical to the English, is returned to Portugal; he hired to the Spaniards at Fernando Po, one hundred soldiers to make reprisals on the English, in consequence of Captain Ragan having endeavoured to cut out of the island a Spanish packet, which was there in March and April last.
"That was Ragan, Miss Billie a big fellow, with red moustache? he was killed." "Killed! Oh, in the attack; yet yet you still hold the house, do you not?" "Yes, or I certainly should not be here with you. We have repulsed two assaults, but have lost heavily, and can scarcely hope to come safely through another. Before it is made I must get you away." "Out of the house, you mean?"
Ain't that the way of it, Talbot?" "Sure," chimed in the other. "It is the same one that was in the parlor last night, sir. She don't seem scared, ner nuthin' like that, only Ragan told her she'd got to stay thar. I heard 'em talkin', an' she said she wanted you." "What did Ragan answer?" now thoroughly aroused to the knowledge this must be Billie.
I have known him for nearly a year, transferr'd from hospital to hospital. He was badly wounded in the thigh at Hatcher's Run, February 6, '65. James E. Ragan, Atlanta, Georgia; 2d United States Infantry. Union folks. Brother impress'd, deserted, died; now no folks, left alone in the world, is in a singularly nervous state; came in hospital with intermittent fever.
Cole Younger told me what to do to make good my escape and I feel that I owe my life to his kindness.” Another old school-teacher is Capt. Steve Ragan, who still lives in Kansas City, Mo., and will bear testimony to the fact that I was neither cruel nor unmanageable. Many causes united in embittering the people on both sides of the border between Missouri and Kansas.
"He only told her to git right back in thar, an' keep still. It was just as that whole caboodle come tearin' up this las' time, sir. It wan't no safe place fer a girl whar you was. Ragan he promised to tell you, only he got hit 'fore the fracas was done. That's why Foster chirked up, an' that's all of it." The man had made it clear as far as he understood.
She ain't no combatant, sir, an' dern me if I don't think she ought to be got outside first." "Girl! What girl?" I cried, believing I must have misunderstood. "What is it you are trying to say, man?" The soldier jerked his thumb back over his shoulder. "The one in thar behind the stairs," he explained slowly. "Tom Ragan he made her go thar when the rumpus begun, an' then Tom he got killed.
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