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He could have heard them farther back, for Rix is in a fury now, and shouts aloud: "If you knew your own interests knew half that I know about your affairs, Lieutenant Abbot you'd think twice before you ordered me under arrest." The lieutenant half starts from the bench; but his self-control is strong. "You are simply adding to your insubordination, sir," he says, coldly.
He cannot "kick the man that is down" with such a speech as that, and it is not long before he reappears, and brings with him a surgeon from one of the arriving regiments. Colonel Putnam, too, comes up the stairs, but merely to take a look at the situation, and place a guard over both the wounded man and his strange, shivering companion, Rix.
Or would you rather have your loving son come and ask for it? How would you like it, if you were an honest man without a mag in his pocket, and screwpulls of conscience? You send on a flimsy to M'riar. She'll see I get it. I'll come for more when I want it you be easy. So no more at present from your dutiful son: RALPH THORNTON DAVERILL, alias RIX."
"Wait," said Joe Rix. "I was makin' a first offer to see how you stood, but you're right. Five thousand ain't enough and we ain't cheapskates. Not us. Mr. Donnegan, they's ten thousand cold iron men behind that saddle out there and every cent of it belongs to you when you come over on our side." But Donnegan merely dropped his chin upon his hand and smiled mirthlessly at Joe Rix.
Hollins was the strange character whom he had foisted upon the regiment at its organization the quondam quartermaster-sergeant, Rix. But in all the marching and fighting of the battle summer of '62, these things were of less account than they had been during the inaction of the winter and early spring, until, at the Monocacy, Mr.
Money found me a hiding-place when my papers would no longer serve. Then money bribed a messenger to carry word of my condition to Rix, who had been sent to the regiment at Harper's Ferry. He got away and joined me, and made out some more papers for me, and then started, by night and alone, to get home, where he said he had money.
"Take your prisoner, sergeant. You men are all witnesses to this language." And muttering much to himself, Teamster Rix is marched slowly away, leaving an audience somewhat mystified. The colonel stands looking after him with a puzzled and astonished face; the men begin slowly to edge away, and then Mr.
What could she do? Try to push him away; to explain? There was nothing to be done. She had to submit when he swept her into his arms. "Rix has told me. Rix has told me. Ah, Nell, you little fox!" "Told you what, Nick?" Was he, too, a party to the murderous plan? But he allowed himself to be pushed away. "I've gone through something in the last few days. Why did you do it, girl?"
The surprising news which the first part of this sentence contained caused Joe to gape, and the girl looked away in concern, enabling him to control his expression. For she knew well enough that men hate to appear foolishly surprised. And particularly a fox like Joe Rix. "But what's the trouble, Nelly?" He added with a touch of venom: "I thought everything was going smoothly with you.
He followed her without a word, and since she led the way she was able to relax her expression for a necessary moment. When she closed the door behind him and faced Joe again she was once more ready to step into her part. She did not ask him to sit down. She remained for a moment with her hand on the knob and searched the face of Joe Rix eagerly.
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