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Updated: June 6, 2025
Colonel Abner Coltrane, an erect, portly gentleman of about fifty, wearing the inevitable long, double-breasted frock coat of the Southern lawmaker, and an old high silk hat, was passing on the opposite sidewalk. As Garvey looked, Goree glanced at his face. If there be such a thing as a yellow wolf, here was its counterpart.
I know you think it a foolish pride, but I want to make as good a showing as I can when I pass the old place." "Now, what does this mean?" said Coltrane to himself, as he compared his companion's sane looks and quiet demeanour with his strange request. But he was already unbuttoning the coat, assenting readily, as if the fancy were in no wise to be considered strange.
Garvey snarled as his unhuman eyes followed the moving figure, disclosing long, amber-coloured fangs. "Is that him? Why, that's the man who sent me to the pen'tentiary once!" "He used to be district attorney," said Goree carelessly. "And, by the way, he's a first-class shot." "I kin hit a squirrel's eye at a hundred yard," said Garvey. "So that thar's Coltrane!
The prodigal had brushed and washed and combed himself to a more decent figure, but he was unsteady in the saddle, and he seemed to be deep in the contemplation of some vexing problem. Coltrane left him in his mood, relying upon the influence of changed surroundings to restore his equilibrium. Once Goree was seized with a shaking fit, and almost came to a collapse.
Goree's eyelids puckered as he strained his blurred sight toward this visitor, and then he smiled serenely. "Have you brought Stella and Lucy over to play?" he said calmly. "Do you know me, Yancey?" asked Coltrane. "Of course I do. You brought me a whip with a whistle in the end." So he had twenty-four years ago; when Yancey's father was his best friend. Goree's eyes wandered about the room.
The coat and hat fitted Goree well. He buttoned the former about him with a look of satisfaction and dignity. He and Coltrane were nearly the same size rather tall, portly, and erect. Twenty-five years were between them, but in appearance they might have been brothers. Goree looked older than his age; his face was puffy and lined; the colonel had the smooth, fresh complexion of a temperate liver.
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