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Updated: May 28, 2025
But I say 'Mees Silsbee. For look you. There is a Silsbee of Sacramento, the daughter of her aunt, who writes letters to her. Pepita has seen them! And possibly it is only that Mees of whom the brigand Pedro boasts."
"What do you think of the young girl who plays with him? Do you know her? Who is she?" He looked at her quickly, and then said, with some surprise: "Did he not tell you?" "She WAS the adopted daughter of Mrs. Peyton, Miss Susan Silsbee," he said gravely. "Then she DID run away from home as they said," said Phoebe impulsively. "Not EXACTLY as they said," said Clarence gently.
He heard the listless, half-querulous discussion about the locality that regularly pervaded the nightly camp. He heard the discontented voice of Jake Silsbee as he halted beside the wagon, and said, "Come out o' that now, you two, and mighty quick about it." He heard the command harshly repeated.
Silsbee, the man who was to bring me here and might have found my cousin for me, was killed by Indians." "Hold up, sonny. Let me help ye," said the first speaker, rising to his feet. "YOU didn't get killed by Injins because you got lost out of a train with Silsbee's infant darter.
Rememberin' your story, I took the liberty of opening it, and found out that your cousin had told Silsbee to bring you straight to him. So I'm only doin' now what Silsbee would have done." Any momentary doubt or suspicion that might have risen in Clarence's mind vanished as he met his companion's steady and masterful eye.
The busy banker pointed with his pen to the letter "S" in a row of alphabetically labeled pigeon-holes against the wall. The captain, having selected his correspondence, paused with a letter in his hand. "Look here, Carden, there are letters here for some chap called 'John Silsbee. They were here when I called, ten weeks ago." "Well?"
Neither was he subjected to any difference of affection or treatment from Mrs. Silsbee, the mother of his little companion, and the wife of the leader of the train. Prematurely old, of ill-health, and harassed with cares, she had no time to waste in discriminating maternal tenderness for her daughter, but treated the children with equal and unbiased querulousness.
The first thing that met his eyes was the helpless and desolate bulk of one of the Silsbee wagons a hundred rods away, bereft of oxen and pole, standing alone and motionless against the dazzling sky! Near it was the broken frame of another wagon, its fore wheels and axles gone, pitched forward on its knees like an ox under the butcher's sledge.
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