Baron, I reckon there's news which yer orter hear toreckly." He was
the overseer of the plantation.
CHAPTER III
MAD WHATELY
Mr. Baron was one of the few of the landed gentry in the region who
was not known by a military title, and he rather prided himself on
the fact. "I'm a man of peace," he was accustomed to say, and his
neighbors often remarked, "Yes, Baron is peaceable if he has his own
way in everything, but there's no young blood in the county more
ready for a fray than he for a lawsuit." "Law and order" was Mr.
Baron's motto, but by these terms he meant the perpetuity of the
conditions under which he and his ancestors had thus far lived. To
distrust these conditions was the crime of crimes. In his
estimation, therefore, a Northern soldier was a monster surpassed
only by the out-and-out abolitionist. While it had so happened that,
even as a young man, his tastes had been legal rather than military,
he regarded the war of secession as more sacred than any conflict of
the past, and was willing to make great sacrifices for its
maintenance.
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