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Updated: June 3, 2025
"My father didn't get left. He's in the boat, all right," said Charley, proudly. "Yes. I knew he'd make it. Now as soon as we can get ashore we'll start up-river." But nothing was done aboard the Georgia, toward landing the passengers, until another hour. Then suddenly the word spread: "Get your baggage. Everybody ashore," and the sailors began to lower the boats.
The mirage began to fade and float cloudwards, drifting up-river above the tree-tops higher and higher, till it vanished in the west. Of all that he had witnessed Granger had heard no sound there lay the chief terror of it. Like the handwriting on the wall in Babylon, it had taken place in silence.
"Who wins?" repeated a Circle City man. "The feller that's got the most friends." "It's so," whispered Keith. " same at Circle," returned the up-river man. McGinty looked at him. Was this a possible adherent? "You got a Push at Circle?" he inquired, but without genuine interest in the civil administration up the river.
One another's beauty through the visage into the character was newly perceived and worshipped; and the beauties of pastoral Thames, the temple of peace, hardly noticed in the passing of the day taken as air to the breather; until some chip of the scene, round which an emotion had curled, was vivid foreground and gateway to shrouded romance: it might be the stream's white face browning into willow-droopers, or a wagtail on a water-lily leaf, or the fore-horse of an up-river barge at strain of legs, a red-finned perch hung a foot above the pebbles in sun-veined depths, a kingfisher on the scud under alders, the forest of the bankside weeds.
Traffic moved with unusual force. It was the custom for outdwelling men who had something to sell or to trade to reserve it until they came to a convention in Kasky, when they were certain to meet the best buyers. All the up-river towns sent lines of vehicles and fleets of boats to the capital.
Like the average New York restaurant waiter, he merely said what he thought his listener wanted to hear. I fervently hoped he was right because we not only had a series of rapids to shoot up-river, but at Kabambaie is a seething whirlpool that has engulfed hundreds of natives and their boats. At sunset we had only passed through the first of the troubled zones.
The up-river detachment had been strengthened by the addition of a few more vessels, and Murray with 1200 men had joined in an unsuccessful attempt to get at the French supply fleet which had retreated to a place of safety.
Michael, made connections there with the last up-river packet, and here I am. I don't quit; I'm a finisher." Pierce noted the emphasis with which Joe's last words were delivered, but as yet his curiosity was unsatisfied. He wondered if the fellow was sufficiently calloused to disregard his humiliating experience or if he proposed in some way to conceal it.
After that there needed but a little skillful maneuvering to inspire them with the idea that it would be a great thing to take a hand, to "make a camp" in spite of the big concern up-river. Shearer knew that this attitude was tentative.
An up-river steamboat had just made fast to the levee, and the two anxious men went down to see if her pilot had seen anything of the Whatnot. As they approached they saw by her splintered bows that she had been in a collision. Others had noticed this also, and already a crowd of people was gathered about her gang-plank to learn the news.
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