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"Wait, I've got an idea," put in Dick, and ran behind the barn to the garden patch. Soon he came back armed with a long and knotty beanpole. George Strong was already on the ladder, and the beanpole was shoved up to him. "That's all right!" came the cry. "Leeks, can't you get hold?" "I'll try," said the terrorized boy. As quickly as he could George Strong mounted to the very top of the ladder.
It was not denied that since the close of the war a considerable number of white men had joined the Republican party; white it was not even claimed that a single negro voted the Democratic ticket in 1868, except as he was led to the polls under the cover of Ku-Klux weapons, terrorized by the violence of that association of lawless men.
At Prairie du Rocher, at St. Philippe, the inhabitants lined the streets to do homage to this man of strange power who rode, unattended and unafraid, to the council of the savage tribes which had terrorized his people of Kentucky. With never ceasing fury the river tore at his clay banks and worried the green islands that braved his charge.
O'Higgins, in his reply, first of all made it perfectly clear that he was in no mood to be terrorized by force or superior numbers. This latter advantage, indeed, he asserted that the gathering, however great its influence, could not claim as regards the sections it represented.
Their little bands consisted of deserters from both armies, dissolute negroes, and all other kinds of "lewd fellows of the baser sort." They raided plantations. They stole horses. They terrorized women.
The other hell, of fire and brimstone, which terrorized the ignorant people into obedience and order, belongs to the same category as the crocodile god and the wicked cat-goddess Pasht, of Egypt. It was necessary in its day." "You and Michael live on such a high plane!" "Oh no, we don't. You know Michael is very human that is why he is so understanding, so forgiving."
Everybody knew that the trust had built its tremendous industrial power upon such criminally high protection as this differential afforded, and that its power now affected public councils, obtained improper favors, and terrorized the small competing beet sugar companies of the West. I argued that it was time to rally for the protection of the people as well as of the beet sugar industry.
Terrorized lest after the first sip of so wonderful a joy it should be removed forever, Eugene was tingling in the dark of his own room tingling and yet reaching, almost with outstretched hands, to the splendor of the life that was seemingly before him.
In less than an hour, though the time seemed only a few moments to the excited Slone, Wildfire had been driven down toward the narrowing neck of the valley, and he had begun to run, to and fro, back and forth. Any moment, then, Slone expected him to grow terrorized and to come tearing up toward the pass. Wildfire showed evidence of terror, but he did not attempt to make the pass.
He remembered, however, having read of such occurrences out West where passengers were terrorized and robbed of money and jewelry. But his speculation was again interrupted by the renewal of the conversation. "That will sure set us even, but when can we do it?" inquired a voice eagerly. "And get away safely?" added another.
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