Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-03-23

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small gray eyes was fire, terrible
and viii herring. He had long before
;ootaintd widespread botoriety in
the city, for his tact and ingenuity in
eludinB the various stratagems which,
from time to time, had been brought
into rhquisition for his capture. /
"Wel!IP' exclaimed Wane, 81 had just
started to find you, when the Internal
policen chased me in here. Let's
take i pull at the bottles then /
have d proposal to make to you" -
~ es! you are al.oaysI" n the point
of sta ting or 'just stated but
never come, only when YOU want
some 4irty work done, which | sup
pose your white hands are too ten
der to perform "Corne, come, fell
low, \ eep thy tongue behind thy
:, teeth!' said Wane, little riled, BY
the d srespectful language of the
other; u did not come 10 hear you
preach5 and | want to hire your
knife, pot your. tongue" "My knife
is not so easily hired, y said the out
law grlmly, while a freezing smile
ran loT fan instant over his forbidding
visage, like q dying puff Of wind
over a turbid pool. "Silence, fool,
or you lose the job, and some one
! who WI j obey me has it!'' exclaimed
Wane, with that Kind of unreal an
ger Which d man will often exhibit to-
ward chose he considers far beneath
him ii talent and respedtability.
Ella! H4T' laughed the grim cutthroat,
IAN edgle can take the fish from the
beak } a fish hawk. My whisper
is as g5od in a lAwddg's ear as any
other mans You see Il have you
by the nose; do you Sc 90 it?" "Oh,
Dart, t hke no offence at what / have
said,P' replied Wane, low from mo-
tives of fear anxious for a recoEcilia-
ton wi Oh his lawless and desperate
compan ion. ave two ml st keep on,
good te rms, for we are kin id Of props
to each other; knock out one and
both on + foundations 60 tt rough" =.
"lVell EIuss that bottle this way, and
after | have tastfcl its contents, /
will be ready to listen to1you," said
Dart; and taking q glass, filed it
nearly full Of brandy and drank it
with no more trouble than if it were
that mu ch water "Now I am ready
to hear u-proceed" I You know
Sam Biggs, said Wane, " th Slight
jerk of his lower lip. "Aye, well;
and it VIII take more mo ney to in.i
duce me to spill his blood, than that
Of any other man upon t he face of
the earth. lie is a noble fellow
there is not one among a thousand
like him. believe if any man
reaches heaven it will be him." -
"What, what sir? do you refuse to do
the deed?p snid Wane, bringing bis
hand do wh upon tho table with a
force that made it treIhble. 81 have
been mis- taken in y0i you still have
something of a heart left; until now
| had Thought otherwise. Do you
refuse | shy, to kill -kill--that is
when | want it done! IL may bo +,
some TIM yet, or it may not, can't
tell now.T No, no, if the pay be
round,' int errupted the desperate. 4
Il would drink my own mothers
blood, for gold enough to square the
cost and tack of cons science, or stop
my only sisters breath - "That {
sounds manly again, | like your
'puhk What sum do you demand ,
or taking his life, VIII en- | wish it?' G
Five thousand dollars in cash, and S
IN order on the bank for the same q
mount, in six months" "Too s
MUCH, man, too much, by heavens i
en- thousand dollars for a few min a
ties work, a pretty dear charge | n
hink." Say no more then, and 60 il
our way" returned the outlaw dry
y. "Stop, don't be SO last-I will o
i've you six thousand, cash in hand u
Ihenever the deed is done. And by G.
eaveus hat is too much, more mon b
y than a man can earn honestly in Il
en- y@rs- p you know my terms; Ifc
ccedWo them or not, just as you Iii
lease, and decide quickly, for | have
0 time to lose." "Dart, you are
nreasonaB lie = tyrannical. Look at II
re difere nee You might die be- re
re the 81 K months were out, and b,
len you would only get five thou> to
md, WHEREAS if you take the six ec
louSand cash, you get all at once; VI
I'd then too, think how easy you "
axe it. A man will labor in the &C
I'D for fourth Of a century, for tn
e sum, W llich you ask for doing a fa
b; even the few moments you are qr
gagged in dom g it, are not half so
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