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The real-estate agent who had made the sale for him, had left his store but a short time after communicating all the preliminaries of the transaction, when old Wolford entered with a slow gait and a look of resolution. "Will you be ready with that money to-morrow?" said he, fixing his small, keen eyes upon the merchant, and bending his brows. "No!" was the decisive answer.
As for Wolford, he but seldom passed the store of the merchant: when he did so, it was not without a pang he had lost a good customer by grinding him too hard, and could not forgive himself for the error. THE chamber in which the sick woman lay was furnished with every thing that taste could desire or comfort demand.
On the day he moved into his splendid mansion, he borrowed from Mr Wolford, on a mortgage of his new property, fifteen thousand dollars, at twelve per cent. per annum. He had but one or two alternatives to borrow at this ruinous rate of interest, or fail. The operation was for one year, without any privilege of renewal; this was the longest time at which the usurer ever loaned his money.
To avoid the delay which would be caused by the distribution of his mounted force to the divisions they had originally been attached to, Burnside organized these into a division under Brigadier-General S. P. Carter, and an independent brigade under Colonel F. Wolford. He also reorganized the infantry divisions of the Twenty-third Corps.
Colonel Wolford, in command of the First Kentucky Cavalry, was in another part of the field, pursuing the retreating regiments in their ten miles of flight from the hills, where the brunt of the action had been fought; and Major Lyon was in charge of the detachment sent to assist in flanking the enemy in this quarter. The staff-officer had ordered up this cavalry.
When summer came, and while Grant was bisecting the Confederacy at Vicksburg, by opening the Mississippi, and Lee was fighting Gettysburg, Chad, with Wolford, chased Morgan when he gathered his clans for his last daring venture to cross the Ohio and strike the enemy on its own hearth-stones and thus give him a little taste of what the South had long known from border to border.
For the time being, however, Hobson had a mounted force that was made up of fractions of brigades from all the divisions of the corps; and Shackelford, Wolford, Kautz, and Sanders were the commanders of the provisional brigades during the pursuit. Morgan's first course was due north, and he marched with some deliberation.
"Yes, I knew all that, very well." "And yet you are not prepared to pay it?" "No, I certainly am not to-day. What I may be in a week is more than I can tell." Wolford did not want the money he had loaned to Mr. Tompkins that is, he had no use for it. But he could never rest contented for any length of time under the reflection that another person was enjoying his money.
Yet with a considerable force Morgan succeeded in making his escape, and started into the interior like a fox for cover. Passing around the advanced column of his enemy, he suddenly came upon the end of Shackelford's column, under Wolford, whom he at once attacked with his usual audacity. Shackelford reversed his column, selected his best horses, and gave pursuit.
"Our party were completely outgeneralled in that measure." "Yes." "Bad news from London." "Yes, bad enough." "It has played the mischief with stocks." "Thank fortune, I don't deal in stocks." And thus Tompkins run on, and Wolford replied cold and sententiously for some ten minutes.
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