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This he did most effectually, the occasion being the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. One of the exciting times in San Francisco in 1865 was when a mob went to the office of "The Examiner" on Washington street near Sansome and carried everything that was movable into the street and piled it up with the intention of burning.
"Oh, Sansome is merely a tool, I don't doubt," replied Mrs. Sherwood. "I can find out to-morrow from Mex Ryan who sent the note," said Krafft. "Let's get out of this horrible place!" cried Nan with a convulsive shiver. Again they had great difficulty in finding any one to get their rigs, but finally repeated calls brought the hostler and Jake himself.
Nan's self-control slipped by ever so little. She did not actually stamp her foot, but her delivery of her next speech achieved that for her. "Will you answer me?" she demanded. "Which side, are you on?" "I am on the side every gentleman is on," replied Sansome, a trifle stung. "The side of the law."
On Clay and Sansome streets the old hulk Niantic had a hotel upon her decks, and the first city prison was in the hold of the brig Euphemia. While most of the miners were steady, hard-working men, honest, and very kind and generous to each other, some drank and gambled their hard-earned gold-dust away with a get of men who were ready to do any wrong thing for money.
"Of course I know it's all right," he blundered ahead tactlessly the gleam in her eye should have warned him that he might have omitted that reassurance "but just the looks of the thing. And he's such a weak and wishy-washy little nonentity!" Her sense of justice aroused by this, she sprang to the defence of Sansome. "You are quite mistaken there," she said with dignity.
We rattle along East and intersecting streets until we reach Sansome, upon which we proceed to Bush, which practically bounds the business district on the south, thence we meander by a circuitous route to Laurel Hill Cemetery near Lone Mountain. A guide is almost necessary. An incoming stranger once asked the conductor to let him off at the American Exchange, which the car passed.
Nan's conscience often hurt her that she could answer this genuine friendship with so little cordiality. She wondered dully how Mrs. Sherwood could bring herself to be so good to so cross-grained a creature as herself. As a matter of fact, the women were marking time in their relations Mrs. Sherwood consciously, Nan unconsciously until better days. The other regular caller was Ben Sansome.
She dwelt in a serene atmosphere of unsuspicion, going about freely with him, taking their right relations for granted, and not thinking about them. Contemplating this, Sansome was clever enough to see that, a false move at the wrong time would do for him. Therefore, he occupied himself at first merely in making himself useful.
At that day Montgomery Street was, as now, the business street, extending from Jackson to Sacramento, the water of the bay leaving barely room for a few houses on its east side, and the public warehouses were on a sandy beach about where the Bank of California now stands, viz., near the intersection of Sansome and California, Streets.
The fire front was yet distant from these institutions, which were destined to fall a prey to the flames, and all that morning lines of dishevelled and half-frantic men stood before the banks on Montgomery and Sansome Streets, braving in their thirst for money the smoke and falling embers and beating in wild anxiety upon the doors.
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