Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 108: what you’re looking at

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— AT THE POINT OF THE SWORD. ce 108 ‘‘Mose Bluff !?? And with the words, uttered in a hissing voice, Colonel Trafton drew his sword. ‘“Colonel ‘Trafton !”’ White as death had grown the face of the wounded soldier, as he looked once more in the face of the man he hated with a hatred that was deadly in its nature. Moses Bluff rose from his chair. He was not armed, but he did not flinch from the danger that menaced. ‘Colonel T'rafton—murderer! at last we meet!?’ cried the young soldier, in a voice husky with emo- tion, while his attetiated frame trembled like a leaf in the storm. Without noticing the epithet, the colonel turned to the astonished farmer. ‘“Were you aware, sir, whom you have entertained, fed, and coddled during the past ten day's ?”” aa Unionist, I admit.’’ ‘But his name ?”? ‘*T have never asked it.’? | “T thought so. Then know that this man—this wretch whom your hospitality has clothed, fed, and cared for so tenderly, is Moses Bluff, a man who has done more to terrorize the people of this valley than the worst of Sheridan’s rough riders, A traitor to his State and country, he has remorsely slaughtered friends and neighbors; burning, murdering, and destroying—a fiend most horrible. Women and chil- dren tremble at mention of his name, as well they ~-may. Helpless beings may well fear this wretch, who has thus far managed to keep his precious car- cass outside our lines. But he isin my power now, and I will see that he commits no more depredations —murders no more women and children !?? The colonel, who had now worked himself into a comicbooks wr (e(@)