Red Men and White
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781435110656
Paperback|9781435110656
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...said Pete Cawthon. "Our money was put in thet yere box." Ballard flushed angrily, but a knock at the door stopped him, and he merely said, "Come in." A trooper, a corporal, stood at the entrance, and the disordered Council endeavored to look usual in a stranger's presence. They resumed their seats, but it was not easy to look usual on such short notice. "Captain Paisley's compliments," said the soldier, mechanically, "and will Governor Ballard take supper with him this evening?" "Thank Captain Paisley," sai 'he Governor (his tone was quite usual), "and say tnat official business connected with the end of the session makes it imperative for me to be at the State-House. Imperative." The trooper withdrew. He was a heavy-built, handsome fellow, with black mustache and black eyes that watched through two straight, narrow slits beneath straight black brows. His expression in the Council Chamber had been of the regulation military indifference, and as he went down the steps he irrelevantly sang an old English tune: '' Since first I saw your face I resolved To honor and re--' I guess," he interrupted himself as he unhitched his horse, "parrot and monkey hev broke loose." The Legislature, always in its shirt-sleeves, the cards on the table, and the toddy on the floor, sat calm a moment, cooled by this brief pause from the first heat of its surprise, while the clatter of Corporal Jones's galloping shrank quickly into silence. II Captain Paisley walked slowly from the adjutant's office at Boise" Barracks to his quarters, and his orderly walked behind him. The captain carried a letter in his hand, and the orderly, though distant a respectful ten paces, could hear him swearing plain as day. When he reached his front door Mrs. Paisley met him. "Jim," cried...
| ISBN-13 | 9781435110656 |
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| ISBN-10 | 143511065X |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | xxi, 215 pages |
| Publisher | Barnes & Noble |
| Published On | 2009-01-01 |
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