It takes determination, loyalty,
devotion, to accomplish a difficult task; and such qualities cannot be
bought.
When Captain Jack and his Modocks held a council of war in their lava
beds, they accomplished things which it was beyond the power of these
fortune-hunters to accomplish. Captain Jack had no gold, but the skill,
loyalty, and devotion of every Indian of his band were at his command.
And yet Francis would have imagined himself the superior of Captain
Jack.
As time was passing, with little accomplished, Francis suggested that
they might first decide upon the amount to be offered as a reward for
the apprehension of the murderers. It was voted to offer a reward of
$10,000, or $5,000 for either of the two men.
"Now, gentlemen," said Francis, "I shall have to go over to Fillmore
Hill to-morrow to see Mr. Palmer, who holds a note against Will Cummins.
You know I am settling the estate. Keeler will be over there, they say,
and I will talk with him. But on the way over, I shall look up a man
worth two of John Keeler in a business like this."
"Who is that?" asked the doctor.
"Mr. William Brown."
No one seemed to know William Brown.
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