Capitolo 25
follows, the messenger and he that return home during the night. The next one
morning I packaged without any trouble and I started on my way. It is able
still take me two days, while striking together with heavy packages to arrive the,
hunters. I had not manufactured on well, the first eight or ten miles
morning, when, as I rounded off a turn in the footstep, a man went out
aside back a stone, threw a gun in my face, and it ordered that I held on
my hands. Then another appeared from the opposite side with his/her gun
leveled on me. In of half one minute from which a dozen of men has galloped on
every quarter, all armed to the teeth. The men on to go away had given me
his/her gun for society, one of this old smoke-pole, beret-and-ball
be-shooters, but I have had to forget what for guns were for me,
elevated exactly my small hands. The leader of the party questioned me
as to whom I was, and what I was doing there, and what I had in those
packages. What I said at least, once, the truth. The child of every mother of
they was cursing and they was cross-interrogandomi in the same breath. Them
me orderly away my horse, taken my gun, and it proceeded to verify my history
unwrapping the mules. Then a lot of ammunition it waked up again their suspicions,
but my history was as good person as it was true, and they never shook me to them from
his truth. I learned soon that theft it was not their motive, and
the leader explained the situation.
"A committee of vigilance had been in strength in that county for of the time,
trying to free the country of illegal characters. But anarchy got
in the saddle, and it had published bench warrants and it served on each
member of this committee of vigilance. As they numbered a lot the vigilantes
one hundred there were not great jail enough to hold such number, so them
it was release on parole for aspect to court. When court met, each
men served with a capias"--
"Hold on! holds only Your horses one minute", Apple suspended quince Forrest,
"I want to find that word. I want to make a memorandum of his, for me I am able
wants to use once it or the other me. Capias? I now have him; goes on."