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Here they met a pack-train of burros that came down the mountain trail. The burros were heavily loaded. Horse and burro tracks struck south from Seaton's to the old California emigrant road. We followed the trail through Guadelope Canyon and across the border. On the way back we stopped at Slaughter's ranch, where the United States cavalry are camping.
Barber laughed at this sudden change of front, for prior to Slaughter's appearance Dickson had been telling, with great glee, how he had put on to Slaughter's shoulders the reputation of his own iniquity.
Both men reached for their revolvers at the same moment, but John Slaughter's hand was quicker. It was his chance to kill; according to the ethics of the gun-play he had that right. But he chose a different course. "Leave the country," he said. "If you're here after ten days, I'll kill you on sight."
This battle was called Cedar Run by the Confederates, and Slaughter's Mountain by the Federals. On the following day we retraced our steps and occupied an excellent camping-ground near Gordonsville.
And yet none of them had had wit enough to understand the significance of it all until the bald fact of the revealed secret came to them. Each one claimed then that he had seen, noted, and understood the peculiarity of Slaughter's behaviour on the two occasions, but he had held his peace lest he should be doing an injustice to a fellow-townsman.
'His unjust contempt for foreigners was, indeed, extreme. One evening, at old Slaughter's coffee-house , when a number of them were talking loud about little matters, he said, "Does not this confirm old Meynell's observation For any thing I see, foreigners are fools ." 'He said, that once, when he had a violent tooth-ach, a Frenchman accosted him thus: Ah, Monsieur vous etudiez trop .
Nickerson moved forward on the right in column of regiments. The 14th Maine, deployed as skirmishers, covered his front, followed by the 24th Maine, 177th New York, and 165th New York in line. After emerging from the woods, Nickerson's right flank rested on the road that runs past Slaughter's house, near the position of battery 16. Dow formed the left of the division and of the army.
A number of times we cut the train of cattle off entirely, as they were congesting at the bridge entrance, and, in crossing, shied and crowded so that several were forced off the bridge into the mire. Our herd crossed in considerably less time than did Slaughter's beeves, but we had five head to pull out; this, however, was considered nothing, as they were light, and the mire was as thin as soup.
Following this line for thirteen hundred yards after leaving the river on the south, the bluff is broken into irregular ridges and deep ravines, with narrow plateaus; thence for two thousand yards the lines crossed the broad cotton fields of Gibbons's and of Slaughter's plantations; beyond these for four hundred yards they were carried over difficult gullies; beyond these again for fourteen hundred yards their course lay through fields and over hilly ground to the ravine at the bottom of which runs Sandy Creek.
He was too involved over the cause to want to hear Slaughter's well-worn theories on the management of the other sex. "Where's the cause?" he asked. "Well, put it plainer. Tony's like his mother, but how d'ye know he ain't more like his " "Smoke!" Marmot cried. "I get it. And yaller head found it out?" "I don't go after for to say that," Cullen said ponderously.
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