"
"Truly, a very manful determination; and, as you have so expressed
yourself, permit me to exhibit my authority, which I doubt not you will
readily recognise. This instrument requires you, at once, to remove from
these lands--entirely to forego their use and possession, and within
forty-eight hours to yield them up to the authority which now claims
them at your hands." Here the officer proceeded to read all those
portions of his commission to which he referred, with considerable show
of patience.
"All that's very well in your hands, and from your mouth, good sir; but
how know we that the document you bear is not forged and false--and that
you, with your people there, have not got up this fetch to trick us out
of those possessions which you have not the heart to fight for? We're up
to trap, you see."
With this insolent speech, Dexter contrived to show his impatience of
the parley, and that brutal thirst which invariably prompted him to
provoke and seek for extremities.
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