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His neck ached horribly; his brain was on fire; his heart, which had been fluttering faintly, gave a great leap, trying to force itself out at his mouth.
In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference.The preparations being complete, the two private soldiers stepped aside and each drew away the plank upon which he had been standing.
Some loose boards laid upon the sleepers supporting the metals of the railway supplied a footing for him and his executioners--two private soldiers of the Federal army, directed by a sergeant who in civil life may have been a deputy sheriff.
It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees.
At a short remove upon the same temporary platform was an officer in the uniform of his rank, armed.
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This plank had been held in place by the weight of the captain; it was now held by that of the sergeant. As he is about to clasp her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all about him with a sound like the shock of a cannon--then all is darkness and silence!Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.Create a library and add your favorite stories.
He must have traveled the entire night.
The commandant has issued an order, which is posted everywhere, declaring that any civilian caught interfering with the railroad, its bridges, tunnels or trains will be summarily hanged. He was sure they were arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance. .
Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum.
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He heard a second report, and saw one of the sentinels with his rifle at his shoulder, a light cloud of blue smoke rising from the muzzle.
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