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Updated: May 1, 2025
"It was a most extraordinary thing that detained me," said Brown, laughing, and edging his way into the ticket line behind his friend where he could talk to him across his shoulder; "I was just leaving the office, Smithy, when Snuyder came in with a card." "Oh, all right of course, if " "No, it was not a client; I must be honest with you." "Then you had a terrible cheek to keep me here waiting."
Except for what you've been good enough to give me, I've had nothing inside me for days, except green leaves and bark and muddy water.... I suppose I can't see straight.... There's a woman they call the Special Messenger; I thought they might have started her after me.... That shot at the ford seemed to craze me.... So I risked the ferry seeing your light across and not knowing whether Snuyder was still here or whether they had set a guard to catch me.... It was Red Ferry or starve; I'm too weak to swim; I waited too long."
She drove her pole into the clay as the punt's bow grated; a Federal cavalryman a mere lad muddy to the knees, brier-torn, and ghastly pale, waded out through the shallows, revolver in hand, clambered aboard, and struck the torch into the water. "Take me over," he gasped. "Hurry, for God's sake! I tell you " "Was it you who called?" "Yes. Snuyder sent you, didn't he? Don't stand there talking "
"I suppose so." Brown removed his straw hat, touched his handsome head with his handkerchief, and continued: "I said to Snuyder: 'What the mischief is this? He said: 'It's for you.
She followed and halted before him, cocking her weapon, with a terrible frown. She said solemnly: "I want you to answer me one or two questions, and if you lie to me it will be the last time. Do you understand?" He nodded and moistened his thick lips, gulping. "Then you are the ferryman, Snuyder, are you not?" He nodded, utterly incapable of speech.
And there's an exceedingly pretty girl outside who expects you to receive her for a few moments. I said: 'But what has this card with a green mouse on it got to do with that girl or with me? Snuyder said he didn't know and that I'd better ask her. So I looked at my watch and I thought of you " "Yes, you did." "I tell you I did.
Nobody is going to hurt you." She went to the door, leisurely uncocking her revolver and pushing it through her belt. "Oh, Connor," she called carelessly, "please mount my friend Mr. Snuyder on my horse, take him across the ford, and detain him as my guest at headquarters until I return. Wait a second; I'm going to keep my saddlebags with me."
The young men stepped aboard, seated themselves, depositing their suitcases at their feet. "Now what about that winning-looker who really didn't interest you?" suggested Smith in tones made slightly acid by memory of his half hour waiting. "Smith, it was a most unusual episode. I was just leaving the office to keep my appointment with you when Snuyder came in with a card "
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