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Updated: June 17, 2025
"I didn't hear," said Fred, panting faster than his hard-ridden horse. "I hope none of the boys off of this range around here got into it with him," Stilwell said. "They say he's closed up all the gamblin' joints and saloons but Peden's, and the bank's been shut four or five days, Judge Thayer and a bunch of fellers inside of it with rifles.
He began to talk before he struck the ground, breathlessly, like a man who had beheld unbelievable things. "That gang from Texas has took the town everybody's hidin' out," he reported. "Took the town?" said Stilwell, incredulously.
"It is well that we came as we did," the sergeant said to his corporal; "if we had been all together, with the wagons blocking up the road, not a man Jack of us would have escaped alive. What an escape it has been! the whole hillside seemed coming down on us." "What will Mr. Stilwell do, sergeant?"
"I must apologize, madam," he began, and then stopped in surprise, while at the same moment a cry of astonishment broke from the lady. "Senor Stilwell!" she cried. "Oh! how glad I am to see you! but but " And she stopped. "But how do I come here, countess, you would ask? I come here by accident, and had certainly no idea that I should find you, or that this mansion belonged to your husband.
It was about as far as he did go as a public official. The brothers issued profane and pointed defiance and went on dealing faro. About this time Frank Stilwell quarreled with the Earps and hastily departed from Tombstone And henceforth, until the wind-up of the ugly affairs that followed, he remained at large, awaiting his opportunity for revenge.
"I do not see that the list concerns you," the mayor said. "Why do you wish to see it?" "I wish to see it, Richard, because I suspect that the name of my Cousin Jack Stilwell is upon it." "Oh, mother!" cried Alice, who had been listening in surprise to the conversation, suddenly starting to her feet; "you don't mean that they have pressed Jack to be a soldier."
The French officer in command, before marching off, thanked Jack very heartily for his interference on their behalf. "I tell you frankly, Captain Stilwell," he said, "that I had no hopes whatever that I or any of my men would leave the ground alive, for these Spaniards invariably massacre prisoners who fall into their hands.
While the troops worked these five guns and the three captured in Southwell's first attack Jack Stilwell was sent off on horseback at full speed with an order for the landing of the heavy guns and mortars from the fleet. The news of the attack on Montjuich and the retreat of the Spanish column spread with rapidity through the country, and swarms of armed peasants flocked in.
"He is a great man," the duke said "a great man, and has performed marvels; but there is a limit to the possibilities which one man can perform, and here that limit is passed. I shall give orders, Captain Stilwell, that your imprisonment is made as little disagreeable as possible, and that you have everything you require." Jack expressed his thanks and retired.
He was a sailor originally, and was taken by pirates and forced to join them, and had a narrow escape of being hung when the vessel he sailed in was captured by an English cruiser; but his life was spared, and he was drafted into the army, and he is a willing and faithful soldier of the queen, and really a worthy fellow." "He is evidently an arrant old scamp, Stilwell.
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