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"I learned soirl,

slowly, "and I wish--I wish you didn't have to use it"

"Jiravely

"Yes," she echoed, "Jih coh she had added, "but he was only

one of several Your voent farther"

After a irl drew back, with a frightened gasp She knehat this ht she did

"Jesse Purvy!" she repeated "Oh, Samson, did ye--?" She broke off,

and covered her face with her hands

"No, Sally," he told her "I didn't have to" He recited the day's

occurrences, and they sat together on the stile, until the e top

Captain Sidney Callomb, who had been despatched in command of a

militia company to quell the trouble in the mountains, should have been

a soldier by profession All his enthusiasms were martial His

precision was military His cool eye held a note of coift of handling men, which made them

ready to execute the impossible But the elder Callomb had trained his