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"Janet told me I could have the use of the parlor when any young men called! I don't think there are many to call. I haven't seen a young man in Valley Road yet, except the next-door hired boy Sam Toliver, a very tall, lank, tow-haired youth. He came over one evening recently and sat for an hour on the garden fence, near the front porch where Janet and I were doing fancy-work.
Wall, the four Harper ladies, and eh, let me see, is that all? ah, no, the old black man and his daughter, and eh, the two little mule'! that's all stop! I was forgetting! What is that fellow's name we used to know? ah, yes; Charlie Toliver!" In a moment he sobered: "Yes, all will be yonder, and I wait only for Quinn to get back in the morning, to come myself."
As usual, in feuds, no immediate redress was attempted, but the injured clan plotted its vengeance with deadly deliberation. After five months, Dick Martin killed Floyd Toliver. His own people worked the trick of arresting him themselves and sent him to Winchester for safe-keeping. The Tolivers succeeded in having him brought back on a forged order and killed him when he was bound and helpless.
Charlie Toliver!" and leaped up and huddled down and moaned and rolled and rose and looked for me. But, after all, fortune was merciful, and I was gone; the Major had summoned me his brother had come. I went circuitously and alone. As I started, some fellow writhing on the grass cried, "Charlie Tol oh, this is better than a tcharade!" and a flash of divination enlightened me.
His plan was to end the war by exterminating the Tolivers. "Dense forest luxuriant undergrowth." The posse, led by Logan and the sheriff, suddenly surrounded the town of Morehead. Everybody gave in except Craig Toliver, Jay Toliver, Bud Toliver, and Hiram Cook, who barricaded themselves in the railroad station, where all of them were shot dead by the posse. Boone Logan was indicted for murder.
Mason rejoiced with him. In a few days came word from Barker: "Your appointment was sent in to-day. I'll rush it through on the other side. Come up to-morrow afternoon." Cornelius and Mr. Toliver hugged each other. "It came just in time," said the younger man; "the last of my money was about gone, and I should have had to begin paying off that mortgage with no prospect of ever doing it."
The leader of the Young-Toliver faction was a notorious bravo named Craig Toliver. To strengthen his power he became candidate for town marshal of Morehead, and he won the office by intimidation at the polls. Then, for two years, a bushwhacking war went on. Three times the Governor sent troops into Rowan County, but each time they found nothing but creeks and thickets to fight.
"Who and what are you? Who and what are you?" "Why, who and what should I be?" "Charlotte Oliver!" "Hmm; Charlotte Oliver. Are you sure you have the name just right?" "Why haven't I got it right?" "Oh, I don't doubt you have; though I didn't know but it might be Charlie Toliver or something." I dilated. "Who told did Ned Ferry tell you that story?" "He did.
It was not one who asked; the whos came like shrapnel; and when, not knowing what else to do, I smiled as one dying, there went up a wail of mirth that froze my blood and then heated it to a fever. The company howled. They rolled over one another, crying, "Charlie Toliver! Charlie Toliver! Oh, Lord, where's Scott Gholson!
Then he prevailed upon the clans to sign a truce and expatriate their chiefs for one year in distant States. Craig Toliver obeyed the order by going to Missouri, but returned several months before the expiration of his term, resumed office, and renewed his atrocities. In the warfare that ensued all the county officers were involved, from the judge down.
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