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Raines came in with tea and toast in the evening, and as she spread the napkin on the bed she prattled cheerily. "I'm so happy to-night. I've just received a letter from my son. He's at Manassas. He's been promoted to lieutenant from sergeant. It was read at the head of the regiment for gallant service at the Henry House, where he captured part of a company of Yankees with a squad of cavalry.
"Good fer you, Easter!" shouted the old mountaineer. Raines had recovered himself, and was looking at the girl seriously. Several of his companions urged him aloud to accept the challenge, but he paid no heed to them. He seemed to be debating the question with himself, and a moment later he said, quietly: "'N' you kin hev mine ef I don't beat you."
Oh, he must find means to write, to telegraph. "Mrs. Raines," he called, hoarsely, "Mrs. Raines!" She came running to his side in alarm. "Oh, what has happened? You are worse!" "I am very comfortable; but, my kind friend, I must I must let my mother know that I am alive; she will think me dead." "That's what I meant to ask you just as soon as you seemed able to talk.
William Raines of the country of Saint Louis. Voila! What happened? Did I stay to fight the duel with that, what I know now to call a cad, and thus be put back into the person of the Marquise de Grez and Bye for a wicked Uncle to murder. I did not. I placed upon the table two large pieces of money and I lost myself in the crowd of persons who had risen and gathered to sympathize with poor Mr.
But, alas! At the joy of all this entertainment there was one sadness. It was of my dear friend, Mr. Peter Scudder. There was no pleasure, but great seriousness, in his face during the whole afternoon. "Don't mind him; poor Pete's chewing a grouch," was what his good friend Mr. William Raines answered to my lament over his sadness.
Wonder what he'll do with his sister. Wonder what the deuce they'll do with me? I've no famine experience. This is the first I've heard of it. Am I ordered? 'Oh, yes. Here's the wire. They'll put you on relief-works, Raines went on, 'with a horde of Madrassis dying like flies; one native apothecary and half a pint of cholera-mixture among the ten thousand of you.
About them were several other men scarcely able to stand, and behind these a crowd of shrinking women. Git back! git back! " said Raines, in low, hurried tones. But Hicks had caught sight of Clayton. For a moment he stood still, glaring at him. Then, with a furious effort, he wrenched himself from the men who held him, and thrust his hand into his pocket, backing against the wall.
At the last, for he surely would not be hanged, I might meet the prisoner again, ruling blank account-forms in the Central Jail, and cheer him with the hope of a wardership in the Andamans. The Indian Penal Code and its interpreters do not treat murder, under any provocation whatever, in a spirit of jest. Sergeant Raines would be very lucky indeed if he got off with seven years, I thought.
The single room was dark except for a few dull coals in a gloomy cavern which formed the fireplace. Sit down, ef ye kin find a cheer," said Raines, " 'n' I'll fix up the fire." Do you live here alone?" asked Clayton. He could hear the keen, smooth sound of the mountaineer's knife going through wood. "Yes," he answered; " fer five year."
I saw a picture in the paper to-night of a big philanthropist named Trubus, or something like that, who is fighting Raines Law Hotels, improper novels, bad moving pictures and improving morals in general. How do you think it would do to give him a tip about these fellows? He asks for more money from the public to carry on their work. They had a big banquet in his honor last night."
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