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Allan Pinkerton, The spy in the rebellion; being a true history of the spy system of the United States Army during the late rebellion, revealing many secrets of the war hitherto not made public, compiled from official reports prepared for President Lincoln , General McClellan and the Provost-Marshal-General ., Appendix: the hardships and privations of a detective's life (search)
ght-artillery service, was something well calculated to check the mounting ambition on the part of most anybody to punish him for the character of the interference shown ; and the leader of the gang contented himself with remarking, See here, Captain Harry, if it wasn't you, there'd be a reck'ning here; lively, too, I'm tellina ye! Well, but it is me; and so there won't be any reck'ning. Will there, now, eh? The ruffians made no answer, but sullenly returned to the dance-house, when CaptCaptain Harry, as he had been called, rammed the two huge revolvers into his boot legs, which action displayed a smaller weapon of the same kind upon each hip; after which he nodded a pleasant good-night to the bystanders, and walked away leisurely in the direction Mr. Kuhn had taken, pleasantly whistling The Bonnie blue flag, or The Star Spangled banner, as best suited him. The moment that Mr. Kuhn's protector appeared at the hotel, the former gentleman expressed his liveliest thanks for the o