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CHAPTER TWELVE Caught in a Corner
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It was no difficult matter for Nan Dorrington to infer what course of action Gabriel intended to pursue. The union Leagues established in the South under the auspices1 of the political department of the Freedman's Bureau had already excited the suspicion of the whites. The reputation they instantly achieved was extremely sinister2, and they had become the source of much uneasiness. There was an air of mystery about them which, however pleasing it might be to the negroes, was not at all relished4 by those who had been made the victims of radical5 legislation. There were wild rumours6 to the effect that the object of these leagues was to organise7 the negroes and prepare them for an armed attack on the whites.
These rumours were to be seen spread out in the newspapers, and were to be heard wherever people gathered together. Nan was familiar with them, and, while both she and Gabriel were possibly too young to harbour all the anxieties entertained by their elders, they nevertheless took a very keen interest in the situation; and it was not less keen because it had curiosity for its basis.
Gabriel had no sooner digested the purport9 of the conversation to which he had listened than he made up his mind to unravel10, if he could, the mystery of the union League, and to discover what part the new-comer, the companion of the Rev8. Jeremiah Tomlin, proposed to play. It was characteristic of the lad that he should act promptly11. When he left Nan so unceremoniously, he ran to the Clopton Place to report what he had heard to Mr. Sanders, but he found that
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