This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX ELLERTON might have won out in the stiff game he was playing if it had not been for the courage that was in him, mad daring linked to an unbridled tongue. For months he had held off the bandits in his neighbourhood by a rough friendship, jeering at their threats and jocularly assuring them ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX ELLERTON might have won out in the stiff game he was playing if it had not been for the courage that was in him, mad daring linked to an unbridled tongue. For months he had held off the bandits in his neighbourhood by a rough friendship, jeering at their threats and jocularly assuring them that he swallowed a stick of dynamite every morning, took a purge every night and was consequently prepared at all times to blow up any one who touched him. He knew these people, their love of a coarse joke, their instinctive sense of fellowship with any one who deliberately came down to the low level on which they were at home. "Ai! El Rojo!" they would cry, making a play of his given name, and smile. He was a landmark, not so much a Gringo as a local institution in which they took pride. Upon his return from the Capital after his heart to heart talk with Digby, however, he noticed a marked change in the atmosphere. A deputation of men he had never before seen from the bandit camps called on him and met his laughing denials with a stony surliness coupled with such muttered insults as no man can forgive or forget. Immediately Ellerton was on the alert; the lines of his mouth hardened, his eyes gleamed wickedly, but he did his best to suppress these outward signs of inner commotion. Something had happened; something he had missed. He sparred for time and finally persuaded the blackmailers to give him three days, ostensibly to get the money demanded but in reality to enable him to tap his extensive underground system of information. In twenty-four hours he had the truth, the whole vile story. It brought to his very door conditions which were said to exist throughout the vast portion of the Republic under the control of the established...
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