Raymond S. Spears

Name: The Golden Pears — Chapter 9
Author: Raymond S. Spears

The Golden Pears — Chapter 9 (1912)

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“The Golden Pears — Chapter 9”, published in 1912, is a work by Raymond S. Spears. It explores elements such as Clinchell, Andrest and Ferris.

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Raymond S. Spears, The Golden Pears — Chapter 9 (1912)

“ Clinchell shouted. "I'll shoot him like a dog! I know that young scoundrel—I know him!"
"If you lay hand on hair or hide of Lunmer Andrest, you forfeit that bond," Ferris declared sharply. "Don't you blame any man till you know he's guilty."
"That bond won't hurt me!" Clinchell exclaimed. "I can pay forty bonds!"
Summons to dinner took the sheriff, his two deputies, and Clinchell down to the dining-room. They found an abundant meal there, and wagons carried lunches for the searchers out on all the traces and roads leading from the plantation into the timber-brakes. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Golden Pears — Chapter 9 (1912)

“ If that man don't answer up I'll shore mess him around; I shore will!"
"Don't forget that peace bond, Mr..Clinchell," Ferris remarked gravely. "It holds, you know—it holds, all excepting in self-defense."
"It 'll be self-defense! I'd shoot him down like a dog! That man's impident!" Sheriff Ferris watched the old man tearing up and down the veranda, swearing and growling, waving his hands and shaking his shaggy head. The sheriff had watched a good many men in his time, good men, bad men, mean men, men who were in earnest and men who put on. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Golden Pears — Chapter 9 (1912)

“ After dinner Ferris and the two deputies rode away again. At the edge of the clearing the sheriff, who had looked back often, turned to his deputies and remarked:
"The old man's all waked up!"
"Mostly about young Andrest," one of his companions suggested bluntly.
"Just what I was thinking. We'd better find Andrest and get to talk with him. The old man's powerful strong-acting when somebody's watching, but he ate his dinner same as the rest of us, and about as much. I'm not satisfied, not the way things are looking. You ride over to that shanty-boat and get Andrest to come down to Deerport. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Golden Pears — Chapter 9 (1912)

“ Ferris suggested.
"Yes—five-six years. Time of the big overflow he had two rafts and his shanty-boat loaded of people. He was sure a useful riveh-rat those days! Take those riveh people, and they know how to keep on top the water and live. Good-natured fellow, that Andrest—real friendly."
Ferris left the posse to its trailing and rode on to the plantation. He found old Clinchell pacing up and down on the veranda, his hands twitching, his face working, his eyes rolling. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Golden Pears — Chapter 9 (1912)

“ The timber-looker excused himself, and the two bankers and the sheriff remained at the table.
"I knew there was something wrong!" Ferris said. "Old Clinchell isn't acting right. He's awful mad when you're looking at him. He wants to kill Andrest on sight, and he'll likely do it. That would leave you in a hole!"
"He's shooting a scatter-gun, Ferris!" Lesgar exclaimed. "That peace bond is only part. These other papers are notices from the banks at Bandsaw and River Bridge. Fact is, we've been borrowing a good deal of money. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Golden Pears — Chapter 9 (1912)

“ We got to find him, boys; but it's best not to talk none about this—swear me that, boys!"
"We won't say a word, suh!"
"There's more to this than we know. I want to get to talk to that boy; but if he's done any crime, why, of course—"
"Course, we got our duty to do, suh!" ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Golden Pears — Chapter 9 (1912)

“ Ferris repeated thoughtfully. "That's why he don't blame Andrest none for taking him in for the reward. I can't get the meaning of this thing nohow. Shanty-boaters are mostly no-'count; but I kind of like Andrest—I sure do! 'Stead of killing old Clinchell, he acted like a gentleman and had him peace-bonded. Course, if he's harmed that girl—if he's harmed her! ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Golden Pears — Chapter 9 (1912)

“ Sheriff Ferris shook his head. "But I know a man who does—who knows every foot of that Dark Bend swamp."
Ferris took the desk-telephone and called a number.
"Hello, Sitson! Come over to the bank, will you?" he said.
Five minutes later the cashier and another man entered the office. The other man wore long, well-dressed leather boots, a gray wool shirt, and heavy woolen trousers, and carried a gray hat in his hands.
"Mr, Sitson," said the sheriff, "you're some experienced in timber-looking—"
"Well, yes—the stave business," Sitson admitted. ”

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