“Take five men and go at once to the State-House. If the Governor needs assistance you will give it, but do nothing hasty. Stop trouble, and make none. You’ve got twenty minutes.”
“Captain—if anybody needs arrestin’—”
“You must be judge of that.” Paisley went into the house. There was no time for particulars.
“Snakes!” remarked Jones. He jumped on his horse and dashed down the slope to the men’s quarters.
“Crook may be here any day or any hour,” said Paisley, returning to the doctor. “With two companies in the background, I think Price’s Left Wing will subside this morning.”
“Supposing they don’t?”
“I’ll go myself; and when it gets to Washington that the commanding officer at Boisé personally interfered with the Legislature of Idaho, it’ll shock ’em to that extent that the government will have to pay for a special commission of investigation and two tons of red tape. I’ve got to trust to that corporal’s good sense. I haven’t another man at the post.”
“HIS PLAN WAS TO WALK AND KEEP QUIET”