? ? ? ? "Go for his daughter!- quick, go for his daughter; sometimes he'll listen to her. If anybody can persuade him, she can."
? ? ? ? So somebody started on a run. I walked down street a ways, and stopped. In about five or ten minutes, here comes Boggs again- but not on his horse. He was a-reeling across the street towards me, bareheaded, with a friend on both sides of him aholt of his arms and hurrying him along. He was quiet, and looked uneasy; and he warn't hanging back any, but was doing some of the hurrying himself. Somebody sings out-
? ? ? ? "Boggs!"
? ? ? ? I looked over to see who said it, and it was that Colonel Sherburn. He was standing perfectly still, in the street, and had a pistol raised in his right hand- not aiming it, but holding it out with the barrel tilted up towards the sky. The same second I see a young girl coming on the run, and two men with her. Boggs and the men turned round, to see who called him, and when they see the pistol the men jumped to one side, and the pistol barrel come down slow and steady to a level-both barrels cocked.
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