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"Well, we have had several celebrated characters who were Jacks. There was let me see Jack the Giant Killer, and Jack of the Bean Stock and Jack Jack " "Jack Spratt," replied Mrs Easy. "And Jack Cade, Mrs Easy, the great rebel and Three-fingered Jack, Mrs Easy, the celebrated negro and, above all, Jack Falstaff, ma'am, Jack Falstaff honest Jack Falstaff witty Jack Falstaff "
Ye promised me you'd never call me that again. I am Hawkeye. I kin see farder'n n " and he began to weep. "Well, will you obey the Council?" "Yes; but I won't wear no white feather I'm brave, boohoo!" "All right. We'll leave that off; but you must do the other punishments. "Will I still be Hawkeye?" "Yes." "All right. I'll do it." The Three-Fingered Tramp.
Before he could reach his saddle one of the company had pulled up between him and the weapons. Captain Love was leaning from his horse questioning Three-Fingered Jack. Murieta took another step toward his weapons; the ranger stopped him with a gesture; he halted, glanced at Captain Love, and scowled. "If you have any questions to ask," he cried, "I am leader of this party. Talk to me."
Three-fingered Hoover had every confidence in the ultimate success of the scheme to which Miss Mary had become an enthusiastic party. In occasional pessimistic moods he found himself compelled to confess to himself that the reports made by Miss Mary were not altogether such as would inspire enthusiasm in the bosom of a man less optimistic than he Hoover was.
With the knowledge which he and his lieutenants had gained at Mokelumne Hill the chief directed operations, but as the weeks went by the influence of Three-Fingered Jack grew until his methods were employed in every robbery. By December the list of wanton murders had grown so great that the State of California offered a reward of five thousand dollars for Joaquin Murieta, alive or dead.
From San José Murieta went northward into the Sacramento valley and took quarters with Rosita in Sonorian Camp, a Mexican settlement near Marysville. About twenty cutthroats under Valenzuela and Three-Fingered Jack began working in the neighborhood. The ambush was their favorite method three or four in a party and one of the number ready with his reata.
Our young gentlemen found their Malayan names difficult to remember, so that the gallant old Patingi Ali was seldom called any other name than that of "Three-Fingered Jack," from his having lost part of his right hand; the Tumangong was spoken of as the "Father of Hopeful," from one of his children, a fine little fellow, whom he was foolishly attached to, and seldom seen without.
And if she is skeered, why, you kind o' hang round there to-night and act like you knew everything was all O. K." "But may be Hoover 'll be lonesome," suggested Barber Sam. He was a sly dog. "Then you go 'long too," said Jim Woppit. "Tell her I said so." Three-fingered Hoover would rather a good deal rather have gone alone.
The officers were just getting the new companies into shape for an expedition against the bandits who were now ravaging most of the country south of the Tehachapi, when Murieta and Three-Fingered Jack waylaid General Bean one night near San Gabriel Mission, dropped the noose of a reata over his head, dragged him from his horse, and stabbed him through the heart.
Three-fingered Hoover had never been regarded an artful man, but now, all at once, for the first time in his life, he practised a subtlety. He became acquainted with Mary Lackington; I am not sure that he did not meet Sir Charles at the firemen's muster in Pueblo some years before.
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