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Updated: June 8, 2025
Cap fretted herself almost sick. She had cudgeled her brains to no purpose. She had not been able to think of any plan by which she could deliver Black Donald. Meantime the last days of July were rapidly passing away. Black Donald in the condemned cell maintained his firmness, resolutely asserting his innocence of any capital crime, and persistently refusing to give up his band.
He cudgeled his brains to try to remember, so as to place himself. "Say! Perhaps I am lost, all right," he remarked, with a laugh, for it did not look at all serious just then, but more like a joke. Then he suddenly remembered that he had the only boat. "If they wanted to hunt for me they couldn't do it.
Chip, as he was stretched on the floor feigning drunkenness, had kept his ears open, although obliged to keep his eyes closed. The single candle which lit the room, furnished light too indistinct for him to see the faces of the two visitors, and as he acted his character of the drunken man, he cudgeled his brains to account for their visit.
Where and when? He cudgeled his brain and then it came to him. It was Nick Rabig's voice! That is, he thought it was. But at that distance he could not be perfectly sure. At any rate it was time to act. With a bound he leaped forward. "Halt!" he cried. "Halt or I fire." There were startled exclamations from both men, and then a prodigious scrambling in the bushes as they tried to escape.
I shook my clenched hand after them; at that moment, I think I could have cudgeled Will without compunction. The ridiculous story of my adventure got wind; no doubt Will spread it, and I was the laughing stock of the village. My mother gave me a sound berating, and my staid, punctilious father administered the severest rebuke of all he said I was a disgrace to my ancestors.
Owing to this conflict only a little rain fell, but the land was fertile and fair harvests were still gathered. Sometimes they went in small bands among the fields of the other villagers and cudgeled any solitary worker they found. If they overtook any woman they ravished her, and they waylaid hunting parties, taking the game, after beating and sometimes killing the hunters.
During their conference Herr Goebel cudgeled his brain, trying to remember where he had seen this young man before, but memory had roamed among clerks, salesmen, and industrious people of that sort where, somehow, this young fellow did not fit in.
He cudgeled his brains to find a reason for the presence of Masterson so far from home, but was unable to arrive at any solution till an idea suddenly struck him. "They're out here trailing us," he muttered. "Yes, I'm sure of it. But how in the world did they ever learn our plans?
He did not want to see Paula's frank eyes veiled by her lashes, and he fumbled to light a cigarette while he cudgeled his wits for the wording of an ordinary good night. "How goes the book? what chapter?" he called after Graham down his hall, as Paula put her hand in his.
Early the next morning Owen suspended his work of answering telegrams of condolence long enough to make a hurried trip to lower Manhattan, where the late Stanford Marvin's lawyers had offices. In vain the great lawyer cudgeled his brains for some flaw. The will ought to be wrong, but it wasn't.
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