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A Final Reckoning

CHAPTER 11: The Black Fellows
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Do you each take a tracker with you.

I will take my boy.

Three constables will go with each of your parties, and four with me.
"Will you gentlemen please to divide up, so as to make seven altogether in each party, without the natives ?" "I need not tell you to keep a sharp lookout, Captain Whitney.

We know the blacks are a very strong party and, now they know that they are pursued they may, as likely as not, make a stand." "Yes, that is quite possible," Reuben agreed.

"Will you please be careful that neither of your parties get more than two miles, at the outside, away from mine?
We can hear the sound of rifles, at that distance.


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