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"Pretty scoundrels, 'pon my word!" cried the General. "Gentlemen's sons, eh? nice gentlemen's sons. They've both got poacher written in their face, and I can see what the end will be transportation, or hung for killing a keeper. That's it, eh, Hopley?" "Well, sir," said Bob, giving us each a pitying look, "I wouldn't go quite so far as that." "No, because you are an easy-going fool.
We have a piece of work in hand, of some importance, and dare not risk anything for the sake of catching those knaves." "I suppose they are part of the band that haunts this forest," said I. "No doubt. But this forest is at present the haunt of larger game. Those scoundrels escaped us this time they were favoured by the dusk and the undergrowth.
"And which is your lieutenant?" said my father in reply. "That gentleman on the grey horse," said the miscreant, "with the red handkerchief bound about his brow." "Then be pleased to tell that gentleman that, if he and the scoundrels who are with him do not ride off the lawn this instant, I will fire upon them without ceremony."
Thereupon the ill-favoured dog avowed his turpitude, and had the audacity to approach Villars in order to speak low to him; but the Marechal, drawing back, and repelling him with an air of indignation, said to him, aloud, that with scoundrels like him he wished for no privacy.
But do not alarm yourself at the difficulties of the task. Monseigneur wishes to prove you. I am acquainted with the parish. The Radicals have no influence there. One of them the other day took it into his head to die civilly and, in spite of the protestations of some low scoundrels, he has been buried in the early morning without drum or trumpet in the criminals' hole.
Completely taken off my guard by the admirably assumed helplessness of the three scoundrels, I was easily captured.
"But as it is, he will leave you enough for all the needs of even a luxurious life. Here is his will, which I am going to send down to him for final execution this very day. My senior clerk will take it, and you will meet him there. That will give you ample for life. But what is the use of it all, if you can lose it in one night or in one month among a pack of scoundrels?"
Two of the scoundrels were hung afterward at Las Vegas, and the third sent to prison for life." The corporal was buried near where the soldiers were encamped at the time of the tragedy, and it is his lonely grave which frequently attracts the attention of the passengers on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe trains, just before the Raton tunnel is reached, as they travel southward.
Not the least disgusting feature of this Gospel according to the Platform is its reference to religion, and even to the Christian Religion, as an authority and mandate for what it does. Christian Religion? Does the Christian or any religion prescribe love of scoundrels, then? I hope it prescribes a healthy hatred of scoundrels; otherwise what am I, in Heaven's name, to make of it?
"It is very strange," the captain growled. "They must have killed him and thrown him into the bushes somewhere; they cannot possibly have taken him prisoner, as he would have called out for help. I cannot understand it all." Just as he said that, bright, red flames shot up in the direction of the inn on the high road, which illuminated the sky. "Scoundrels! cowards!" he shouted.
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