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What Answer?

CHAPTER IX
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Sorry I can't oblige you in return,--very; but you'll just have to turn tail and drive back again.
That bit of paper says 'Pass the bearer,' and the bearer's already passed.

You can't get two men through this picket on one man's pass, not if one is a nigger and t'other a skunk; so, sir, face about, march!" This was an unprepared-for dilemma.

Mr.V.looked at the face of the "Lincoln vandal," but saw there no sign of relenting; then into the distance whither he was anxiously desirous to tend; glanced reflectively at the bayonet in the centre and the narrow space on either side the road; and finally called to his black man to come back.
Sam approached with reluctance, and fell back with alacrity when the glittering steel was brandished towards his own breast.
"Where's your pass, sirrah ?" demanded Jim, with asperity.
"Here, massa," said the chattel, presenting the same one which had already been examined.
"Won't do," said Jim.

"Can't come that game over this child.

That passes you to Fairfax,--can't get any one from Fairfax on that ticket.


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