Black Arrow, the Avenger — page 89: what you’re looking at

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- FREE WHISKY. 98 shave thought of coming to look for them, if it. had not been _well known that they were absent from the settlement: How- ever, it was an insult that should net go unpunished, and they were more set than ever in their determination to go to Col- onel Landry’s plantation and “ clean it out.” " St. Clair, who was expected to be the chief gainer by the raid, threw open his “saloon” to his friends, determined that they should not lack artificial courage to spur them up to the undertaking. They were informed by the loafers who as- sisted them to dispose of the free whisky that the vigilants had separated and gone to their homes, leaving them, as they believed, a fair field for their eperations. era, i Roder and his men all drank entirely too much of St. Clair’s free whisky. They were greatly mortified and exasperated by their recent defeat... They had lost many of their comrades, and it was plain to most of them, notwithstanding their laugh- ing and boasting, that a longer stay in that section of country would not be healthy for them. They were determined :to strike one more blow, for revenge, before trying the effect of a change of air. Therefore it was that they prolonged their arouse until some. of them hardly knew, when they set out for Colonel Landry's plantation, Whether they were walking on their heads or on their feet. . 7 a “ Roder made some efforts to keep order among his boister- ous followers, but’ soon abandoned them as useless, and the Bacchanalian crowd struggled on in the noisiest and most dis- — orderly manner. ‘ | ie r : : , : ‘CHAPTER XV. TERE were lights in Colonel Landry’s windows when Ro- der and his men came in sight of the house. It was yet early, and the lights indicated that the family were at home, and had not yet retired for the night. There was a profound still- ness about the place, and it seemed to Roder, who had suc- ceeded in quieting his followers, that every thing favored his ~~ ‘¢ tee comcbooks.com