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"You see, the fellow shot himself three times, and when he did not die quickly enough to be suited, he cut his throat from ear to ear, and his specter was a most ghastly-appearing object, bleeding from the bullet wounds and having a gash across its throat from " "Say, will you let up!" gasped Harris. "If you don't, I'll get out!"
As only two dollars was paid for killing a wolf, it is easy to see how the pioneers regarded the forest folk in point of relative noxiousness. But ten years later a handful only of the Kickapoos remained in Sangamon County, the specter of the vanished people.
The insurance system in providing for the wants of old age, would forever banish the haunting specter of a pauper's death in the poor-house. They would then realize that money, was not so precious as a human life!
Rearing, plunging and backing, Ninian's mount had him soon on the ground; and though Ephraim stuck to his saddle like a burr; he could not hold his horse and get at his revolver in that one instant of the appearance and disappearance of this strange "specter."
At the turn of an alley he met Rachimburg advancing toward him trembling, with an air of terror. "Sire," murmured he, in a mysterious voice, "has Your Majesty seen it?" "What?" asked the king. "The specter; it passed close by me. I am a lost man; I shall die to-morrow." "What specter?" said Charming. "What fool's tale are you telling me?"
But it had been five years since the last the night his mother had fainted with terror at what she had found concealed in the toes of his gymnasium shoes. Incredible that into his manhood should come the waving specter of those early passions. At eleven o'clock, after she heard him up and moving about, his mother carried him his kiss and his coffee, steaming black, the way he liked it.
The morning of Bums's injury, I visited Singleton. The new outrage, coming at a time when they were slowly recovering confidence, had turned the men surly. The loss of the axe, the handle of which I had told them would, under skillful eyes, reveal the murderer as accurately as a photograph, was a serious blow. Again arose the specter of the innocent suffering for the guilty.
Nevertheless, the ghost of his flight from the first engagement appeared to him and danced. There were small shoutings in his brain about these matters. For a moment he blushed, and the light of his soul flickered with shame. A specter of reproach came to him.
"Come, come away from here," he repeated with his teeth rattling from fear. "What have you seen?" "A specter!" he murmured, trembling with fright. "A specter?" "On the roof there. It must be the nun who practises magic during the night." The distinguido thrust his head out to look, just as a flash of lightning furrowed the heavens with a vein of fire and sent a horrible crash earthwards.
To him they were seven days of a fight whose memory would remain with him until the end of time. Sleepless nights and almost sleepless days. A bitter struggle, almost without rest, with the horrible specter that ever hovered within the inner room.
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