Crossword-Solution: DOLLEY 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

This occupied their attention for a considerable time; when a party _did_ start in pursuit of my companion, under the guidance of Dolley--the man who had fired the last fatal shot--I reflected, with some satisfaction, that the fugitive had a long two hours' "law," The guard-room cleared gradually; and, before daybreak, I got some brief, broken rest--supine on the narrowest of benches, with my crossed arms for a pillow.

Dolley's party were not the actual captors, though they were hard on the fugitive's trail; another squad, sent to search for some Confederates supposed to be hidden in the neighborhood, had come upon some tracks in the snow, leading to a farm-house, and there discovered my unhappy guide, sleeping the sleep of exhaustion.

When we started, I bore no sort of malice to that same Dolley; but, before we had got through the twenty-three miles that brought us to New Creek, I hated him intensely, as one hates the man--friend or foe--that bores you to death's door.

Immediately on getting out of prison, I heard--not without a savage satisfaction--that Imboden's horsemen had harried his homestead thoroughly in their last raid; Dolley only saving his life by "running like a hare." The Southerners know everything that goes on near their lines, and are wonderfully regular in settling scores with any registered debtor.

The maid was Peggy Quine, seventeen years of age, of dark complexion, nearly as round as a dolley-tub, and of deadly earnest temperament.