[Transcriber's note: The following chapter was misnumbered in the
original book. It is actually Chapter XIII.]
CHAPTER IX.
NEW PARTIES TO THE CONFLICT.
This sudden and unlooked-for escape of Munro, from a fate held so
inevitable as well by himself as all around him, was not more a matter
of satisfaction than surprise with that experienced personage. He did
not deliberate long upon his release, however, before recovering his
feet, and resuming his former belligerent attitude.
The circumstance to which he owed the unlooked-for and most unwonted
forbearance of his enemy was quickly revealed. Following the now common
direction of all eyes, he discerned a body of mounted and armed men,
winding on their way to the encampment, in whose well-known uniform he
recognised a detachment of the "Georgia Guard," a troop kept, as they
all well knew, in the service of the state, for the purpose not merely
of breaking up the illegal and unadvised settlements of the squatters
upon the frontiers, upon lands now known to be valuable, but also of
repressing and punishing their frequent outlawries.
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