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Yager and Brown, knowing the fate which Ives had met, gave up hope when they fell into the hands of the newly organized Vigilantes. Brown was hanged; so was Yager; but Yager, before his death, made a full confession which put the Vigilantes in possession of information they had never yet been able to secure. *
As yet we're together firm bound in the land, The hilt is yet fast in the soldier's hand. But let 'em divide us, and soon we shall find, Short commons is all that remains behind. FIRST YAGER. No, no, by the Lord! That won't do for me. Come, come, lads, let's all now, as one, agree. SECOND YAGER. Yes, let us resolve on what 'tis to be. Hostess, tell us how high you've scored.
No man's spoiler nor heir will I be But, throned on my nag, I will smile to see The coil of the crowd that is under me. FIRST YAGER. Bravo! that's as I've always done. FIRST ARQUEBUSIER. In truth, sirs, it may be far better fun To trample thus over your neighbor's crown. FIRST CUIRASSIER. Comrade, the times are bad of late The sword and the scales live separate.
FIRST YAGER. The cares of this life, he casts them away, Untroubled by fear or by sorrow; He rides to his fate with a countenance gay, And finds it to-day or to-morrow; And if 'tis to-morrow, to-day we'll employ To drink full deep of the goblet of joy,
I'd be there now but for the damned orders that hold me here. If you ride hard you can make the spot before they come ashore." There was no reason I should not go, and much in the glittering prospect appealed to me. Five minutes later I was trotting out of the Yager camp, pressing passage through the crowds, already headed southward, the dragoon riding silently at my heels.
If now we drew nigh and rapped at the door, No greeting awaited, 'twas opened no more; From place to place we went sneaking about, And found that their stock of respect was out; Then touched I the Saxon bounty, and thought Their service with fortune must needs be fraught. SERGEANT. You joined them then just in the nick to share Bohemia's plunder? FIRST YAGER. I'd small luck there.
It has ever been foremost through the war, And may manage its laws, as it pleases best; Besides, 'tis by Friedland himself caressed. Who averred it? SECOND CUIRASSIER. From the lips of the colonel himself I heard it. FIRST CUIRASSIER. The devil! we're not their dogs, I weep! FIRST YAGER. How now, what's wrong? You're swollen with spleen! SECOND YAGER. Is it anything, comrades, may us concern?
But now I know that some day the trumpets will tell to the other brothers when the heart of old Mauer has ceased to beat." "Oh, my father, you must not speak thus!" said Carmen, anxiously. "The person for whom the music is sounding is the bachelor Brother Christopher Yager, who died yesterday evening.
FIRST YAGER. Good that now's a proof of an iron heart. CITIZEN. His grandmother's sure to die with sorrow. SECOND YAGER. The better for then he'll inherit to-morrow. The matter no doubt you have duly weighed, And here a new man of yourself have made; With hanger and helm, sir, you now belong To a nobler and more distinguished throng. Thus, a loftier spirit 'twere well to uphold
We were each armed with a Mississippi yager and two revolvers, and as the Indians came swooping down on our improvised fort, we opened fire with such good effect that three fell dead at the first volley.
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