felt hat extended, and into it they dumped dust him” began to rise from the crowd, most of and gold-pieces which were to be presented to which included men who on the day before Frank Cox and his wife.
had been duped into countenancing the
“Thirty lashes,” said a big miner who
punishment of an innocent man.
had taken charge. “An’, by ——— I’ll put
“Lies, Colonel—lies!” Ward protested
’em on myself. I wouldn’t spank a child— but desperately.
a skunk——”
“Me a liah! Suh!” the colonel’s voice
Thirty lashes they were, thirty fierce,
thundered.
biting, bloodthirsty lashes. When they were Ward saw that he was deeper into the
finished, Ward was sent staggering toward the colonel’s anger than ever. Among the things sand-dunes with but twenty minutes to find that Ward under no circumstances would do himself beyond the limits of the town; while was fight a duel with Col. Sutherland, and, in the crowd, at the head of which a man
stammering about to apologize, he confessed marched bearing a hat full of gold, headed for
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the colonel’s house to offer its apologies to to live and prosper in San Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cox and to welcome them
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