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Snarled and fought and tried to bite like the beast he is. Woodson and the Court spark took him." "Do you know what will be done with him now?" "He'll be taken on to the gaol at the court-house." "That is five miles from here," said Landless. "Yes, near to the village where we took him. He'll be kept there until they can try him. And they'll make short work of him.
Whipping-post and branding-irons are at hand, and death is something closer to a felon in Virginia than in England. Be careful! Now, Woodson, what have you put these men to?" "They'll go into the three-mile field to-morrow morning, your honor, unless you wish other disposition made of them." "No, that will do. Take them away."
The overseer faced about and was marching off with the recruits for the three-mile field when his master's voice arrested him. "Take those two in front on with you, Woodson, and send me back the brown-haired one." The "brown-haired one" turned as his companions disappeared around a hedge of privet and came slowly back to the steps. "You wished to speak to me, sir?" he said quietly. "Yes.
To have some black, sweet hours in which to work your will on them at the house yonder? To plunge your arms to the elbow in the master's money chest; to become drunken with his wine; to strike him down, and that smiling imp his cousin, and that other devil, Woodson; to hear the women cry for mercy and cry in vain? You would like all this?"
"Trust me for that, your Excellency," said the overseer grimly. "Then to work, gentlemen," cried the Governor, "for there is much to do and but little time to do it in. Major Carrington, you with Mr. Peyton will ride with me to Jamestown. Colonel Verney, you will know what measures to take for the safety of your shire. Woodson, have the horses brought around at once."
Will you manage to dispose of them?" Godwyn smiled with wise, sad eyes. "Time will dispose of them," he said quietly. "He is new to the life. Let him taste its full bitterness. It will plead powerfully against his scruples. He has as yet no special and private grievance. Wait until he gets into trouble with Woodson or his master.
Woodson and Strickler left Lecompton in the afternoon, and reached the Missouri camp early in the evening. Here Woodson found it impossible to accomplish the object of his mission. No attention or respect was paid to him by those having command of the forces. The army he had gathered refused to acknowledge his authority.
To His EXCELLENCY, GOV. GEARY: SIR: Secretary Woodson thought you had better come to the camp of the militia as soon as you can. Before this dispatch reached Lecompton the Governor had departed with three hundred United States mounted troops and a battery of light artillery, and arrived in Lawrence early in the morning, where he found matters precisely as described.
At noon the next day returned the search party, dispatched by the Colonel on receipt of his daughter's information, and headed by Woodson and Sir Charles Carew. In their midst, bound with ropes, and seated behind one of the mounted men, was Roach.
General Richardson ordered out his whole division on the strength of the "Argus Extra" and neighborhood reports, and the entire border was already in motion when acting Governor Woodson issued his proclamation declaring the Territory "to be in a state of open insurrection and rebellion." General Smith found it necessary to direct his first orders against the Border-Ruffian invaders themselves.
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