Now take a friend's advice; 'twill be all the better for you, I tell
you."
The speaker evidently meant well, so far as it was possible for one to
mean well who was commissioned to do, and was, in fact, doing ill. The
Georgian, however, only the more indignant at the impertinence of the
address, took the following notice of it, uttered in the same breath
with an imperative command to his own men to hasten their advance:--
"Disperse yourselves, scoundrels, and throw down your arms!--on the
instant disperse! Lift a hand, or pull a trigger upon us, and every man
shall dangle upon the branches of the first tree!"
As he spoke, leading the way, he drove his rowels into the sides of his
animal; and, followed by his troop, bounded fearlessly up the gorge.
CHAPTER XIV.
CATASTROPHE--COLLETON'S DISCOVERY.
It is time to return to Ralph Colleton, who has quite too long escaped
our consideration. The reader will doubtless remember, with little
difficulty, where and under what circumstances we left him.
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