Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-05-29
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$50 your SISTER EuOeSu Atne-s AAAo
J Tom that's on your mind this morn RI.
Zig, is it?"'s Murrell was saying.
l ~. Make it worth my while and III
{ take her on your hands" and Muir
rel laughed. 2ss u ES 4! a
glI Tom favored him with q sullen
stare Y; & 33.. "
There was a brief silence, during
/ which Murrell studied his friends
Z faoe.A When he spoke, 1t was TO give
the conversation anew direction.
Did she bring the boy here last
night? /, saw you drive of with him
In the carriage. d \. I. ; "a a -
'.Y es. she makes Q regular--pet OF
the little ragamu fin. "
rs the hoy going to stay at Belle
y Plain R" inquired Murrell. =
hat notion hash !! struck her yet,
for heard her say at breakfast that
shed take him TO Raleigh this after
noon. n: iess 81 +. /
IL That's the boy I travelled all the
way to North Carolina &c. get for
h Fentress." 81 s b WIZ s i
.Eh-you don't say e. cried Ware.
ON. what do you know about the
Quintard lands; what DO you know
about Quintard himseif? 2" continued
y Murrell. 4 l4i. Is.
"a .ssHe was rich planter. lived in
i North Carolina. MY IA her met him
\ when he was N congress- and got him
to invest IN land here They had
j, some icol ontzation scheme on foot
this was upward of twenty years ago
but nothing came of It. Qutntard
lost interest" Si "a ,$4
And the land e. NJ s4;3ss "A ID
Is. oh, he held on to that 3s ssa9.
.".Quintard has been dead two years.
Y Tom, and back yopdsr IN North Caro-
q lima they told me he left nothing but
the home plantation. The boy lived
there up to the time OF Quintard's
z death, but what relation he was to
Il the old man no one knew. o finland,
Tom, I'd say that by getting hold. OF
the boy Fentresss expects to get hold:
OF the sQuintard lane" u
That's likely" said Ware: then
struck by a sudden idea; he added,
~ Are you going to take all the risks
and let him pocket the cash? II It's
the land he's after, the stakes big
enough to divide.,' s5 @lss g3$3 III
lib can have the whole thing and
I welcome. I'm playing for a bigger
stake. His friend stared lat him In
astonishme nt. !" I'm licking q specula-
+ ton into shape that will cause me to-
y be remem bered while there's awhile
man alive In the Missi ssippi Valley.
Haye you heard what the niggeIs did
at Hayti 2" ~ q ne
5,.'.Yo on let the niggers alone \ don't
you tamper with them. :" said Ware.
He possessed profound belief In
Murrell' s. capacity ~ .,S ss
have been working ror--to steal a
few niggers? hat furnishes us with
money, but you can push the trade
Y too hard and too far. The planters
j IRE uneasy. The Clans got TO dealsa
counter blow or go out OF business.
Between here and the gulf" he
made q wide sweeping gesture with
his arm. n am Espotting the country
with my men; there. are two thousand
active workers on the rolls OF the.
Clan. and as many more like you.
Tom-and Fentress-o on whose friend.
ship i can rely d q
4 53'i n Sure as God. John MurreiL, you
are toyerreaching yourself! Your
white men are all right, they've got
4 to stick BY you; II they don't they
know it's only a question OF time I'M
It'll they get knife driven into their
rtbs-but niggers-there Isn't any
real fight in a nigger. II there was
they wouldn't be here" \. ssss
~ ss .;Yet you couldn't have made the
whites in Hayti believe thai, !" said
EMurrell. with q sinister smile.
Ware, feeling the entire useiessness