Moreover, such was his faith in his destiny and four deuces that he never for a moment wondered just how the money would be paid back should a higher ...
If the money it contained happened to belong to the firm of O'Hara Brothers, Gerald's conscience was not sufficiently troubled to confess it before Ma ...
As the night wore on and the drinks went round, there came a time when all the others in the game laid down their hands and Gerald and the stranger we ...
Gerald knew that northward beyond that stream the land was still held by the Cherokees, so it was with amazement that he heard the stranger jeer at su ...
He knew that section to be as well settled as the Coast, but from the stranger's description, his plantation was more than two hundred and fifty miles ...
In transacting business for O'Hara Brothers, he had visited Augusta, a hundred miles up the Savannah River, and he had traveled inland far enough to v ...