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Axe them fellers in thar who's been hyar thet hain't hyar now? Who is ther feller thet got out afore we come hyar." At this veiled charge of deceit, the faces of the Souths again blackened, and the men near the door of the house drifted in to drift presently out again, swinging discarded Winchesters at their sides. It seemed that, after all, the incident was not closed.
"Runner out at third," called Tozier in a singsong voice. "Side out!" "Yet who cared?" Dick's wonderful blow on the leather had brought three men in safe. The Souths followed at bat. One, two, three, Prescott struck them out. Ted Teall's face looked solemn, indeed. "Wells, we've simply got to hold these fellows down," grunted Teall to his catcher in the brief conference for which there was time.
But, if Callomb could be shot down in his uniform, under circumstances which seemed to bear the earmarks of South authorship, it would arouse in the State at large a tidal wave of resentment against the Souths, which they could never hope to stem.
Frame houses showed along the banks of the creek grown here to a river unplaned and unpainted of wall, but brightly touched with window-and door-frames of bright yellow or green or blue. This was the territory where the Souths held dominance, and it was pouring out its people. They came before noon to the mouth of Dryhole Creek, and the house of Wile McCager.
He had been authorized to organize a local militia company, and to drill them, provided he could stand answerable for their conduct. The younger Souths took gleefully to that idea. The mountain boy makes a good soldier, once he has grasped the idea of discipline. For ten weeks, they drilled daily in squads and weekly in platoons. Then, the fortuitous came to pass.
Their kinsmen dwelt about them: the Souths, the Jaspers, the Spicers, the Wileys, the Millers and McCagers. Other families, related only by marriage and close association, were, in feud alignment, none the less "Souths."
They gets too much notion of goin' ter law an' thet's plumb fatal. Ye'd better stay where ye b'longs, Samson, an' let good enough be." "Why hain't ye done told about all the rest of the Souths thet didn't hev no eddication," suggested the youngest South, "thet got killed off jest as quick as them as had hit?"
Had not Ross struck out immediately afterward there would have been other runs scored. The count was now three to nothing in favor of the Central Grammars. "Prescott's fellows are playing some ball," declared Bill Rodgers. "Hub! You mean that the Souths don't know how to play," sneered Hi Martin. "Teall's fellows are playing well," argued Rodgers.
The attitude of each faction was that of several men standing quiet with guns trained on one another's breasts. Each hesitated to fire, knowing that to pull the trigger meant to die himself, yet fearing that another trigger might at any moment be drawn. Purvy dared not have Samson shot out of hand, because he feared that the Souths would claim his life in return, yet he feared to let Samson live.
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