[With Lee in Virginia by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookWith Lee in Virginia CHAPTER XI 9/38
If you take my advice, when you get to the end of your journey you will not leave the station, but take a ticket straight back North.
I tell you your life won't be safe five minutes when you once get outside of the town.
They daren't do anything there, for, though folks have had to put up with a great deal, they wouldn't stand the shooting of a minister; still, outside the town I would not answer for your life for an hour." "I have my duties to perform," Vincent said, "and I shall certainly carry them through; but I am obliged to you for your advice.
I can quite understand that ruffian," and he looked at Mullens, who, with his handkerchief to his mouth, was sitting alone in a corner--for the rest had all drawn away from him in disgust--and glaring ferociously at him, "will revenge himself, if he has the opportunity.
However, as far as possible, I shall be on my guard." "At any rate," the man said, "I should advise you, when you get to Nashville, to charge him with assault.
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