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For a moment the post- trader surveyed them doubtfully, and then, stepping out upon the veranda, beckoned to them. "Here's a paper I've signed, captain," he said; "I wish you'd witness my signature. It's my testimony for the court-martial." "Then someone else had better sign it," said Carr. "Might look prejudiced if I did." He turned to the ladies. "These ladies are coming in to see Ranson now.
The newspapers and information of large bodies of Federal troops being hurried by rail past Harper's Ferry were delivered by young Ranson to General Lee on the following day. Throughout the preceding day, while occupied about Harper's Ferry, we heard heavy cannonading across the Maryland border, apparently eight or ten miles from us.
"Don' speak lak dat uv dem as is in trouble, Sally," reproved old Parson Ranson, solemnly; "anybody can say 'Ef." "Sho am de troof," agreed Jerry Dillihay. "Sho am, black man." The conversation drifted into the endless moralizing of their race, but it held no criticism or condemnation of Cissie. From the tone of the negroes one would have thought some impersonal disaster had overtaken her.
He checked himself, and glanced over his shoulder at the retreating figure of Cahill. The buffalo robes fell again, and the spurs of the post-trader could be heard jangling over the earth-floor of the exchange. "For fifty dollars," repeated Ranson, in brisk, businesslike tones, "I'll rob the up stage to-night myself!"
The officiating minister was not Parson Ranson after all, but a Reverend Cleotus Haidus, the presiding elder of that circuit of the Afro-American Methodist Church, whose duties happened to call him to Hooker's Bend that day. So, notwithstanding Cissie's efforts at simplicity, the wedding, after all, was resolved into an affair.
"The Red Rider!" protested Ranson; "I don't see anything exciting in rounding up one miserable horse thief." "Only they don't round him up," returned Curtis crossly. "That's why it's exciting. He's the best in his business. He's held up the stage six times now in a year. Whoever the fellow is, if he's one man or a gang of men, he's the nerviest road-agent since the days of Abe Case."
"If you ask me, I think you've begun at the wrong end," said Ranson. "If I were looking for the Red Rider I'd search for him in Kiowa City." "Why?" "Because, at this end no one but a few officers knew that the paymaster was coming, while in Kiowa everybody in the town knew it, for they saw him start.
Fust, we went to the arboh whah thah wuz a big geth'rin' hardly even standin'-room in the aisles but we manidged to squedge in on a seat close up in front. The platform wuz crammed with preachahs, an' ole Brothah Ranson wuz holdin' fo'th et a gran' rate. His subjec' wuz 'Fleein' frum the wrath to come, an' he wuz pow'rful.
The onslaught of sudden and new conditions overwhelmed and paralyzed him. "Father!" said Miss Cahill, "it isn't just as you think. Mr. Ranson did ask me to marry him in a way At least, I knew what he meant. But I did not say in a way that I would marry him. I mean it was not settled, or I would have told you.
I received one of them this morning, accusing the whippersnapper of all sorts of vague things, and me and my fellow trustee, who is at present enjoying himself travelling, of abetting him. I repeat, damn Ranson, Richards and Son; damn the parson, damn Helen no, I won't say that, for she is dead and especially damn the whippersnapper. Don't you agree with me?" "Not quite, Sir," said Godfrey.
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