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After that she stayed more with Richard, and once, of her own accord, she put her arm in his and stood half leaning against him with both hands clasped together, while he held the bouquet which Mrs. Senator Woodhull had sent by express from New York.
I was with Doniphan too. We found ways, huh?" His straight gaze outfronted the other, who turned and rode back. But that very night eight men, covertly instigated or encouraged by Woodhull, their leader, came to the headquarters fire with a joint complaint. They demanded places at the head of the column, else would mutiny and go on ahead together.
The Missourians camped proudly and coldly apart, the breach between the two factions by no means healed, but rather deepened, even if honorably so, and now well understood of all. Most men of both parties now knew of the feud between Banion and Woodhull, and the cause underlying it. Woman gossip did what it might. A half dozen determined men quietly watched Woodhull.
Even the thoughtful judicious Martha C. Wright wrote Mrs. Hooker at this time, "It is not always 'the wise and prudent' to whom the truth is revealed; tho' far be it from me to imply aught derogatory to Mrs. Woodhull.
"I saw him that night, and then Mrs. Woodhull took me to ride with him in the carriage, and then well, I rode alone with him once down by the lake, and he talked to me just as if he was not a grand man and I a little schoolgirl. And when the term closed I stayed at Mrs. Woodhull's, and he was there.
I have the honor to wish you good-morning. And you need feel no further concern regarding my niece." The following week the Easter recess began. During that recess Miss Woodhull went to a famous Sanitarium in the state in order to "Restore her over-taxed nerves." She did not know that the physician in charge was one of Admiral Seldon's oldest friends.
The girl did not stir. "Did you understand my command?" "I did, Miss Woodhull. I have already told you the entire truth, but I must decline to read that letter because it is not mine." "Decline! Decline!" almost shrieked the infuriated principal. "Do you dare defy my commands?" "I do not wish to defy your orders, Miss Woodhull, but I can not read someone else's letter."
Another and he was off, with Molly Wingate, in a white dead faint, in his arms. By now others had seen the affair from their places in the wagon park. Men and women came hurrying. Banion laid the girl down, sought to raise her head, drove back the two horses, ran with his hat to the stream for water. By that time Woodhull had joined him, in advance of the people from the park.
He reached now convulsively for a tuft of grass, paused, stared. "Hit's Sam Woodhull!" ejaculated the scout. Then, suddenly, "Git away, Will move back!" Banion looked over his shoulder as he stood, his own hands and arms, his clothing, black with mire.
Steadily as when he had held his friend's life in his hand, sighting five inches above his eyes, the old hunter drew now above the eyes of his enemy. When the dry report cut the confined air of the valley, the body of Sam Woodhull started forward. The small blue hole an inch above the eyes showed the murderer's man hunt done.
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