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The people of Lawrence denounced the deed; but the sheriff hoarded up the score for future revenge.

勞倫斯的民眾譴責了這一行徑；但警長把這筆帳記在心裡，留待日後報復。

One additional incident served to precipitate the crisis.

又一起事件促使危機提前爆發。

Ex-Governor Reeder was in attendance on this committee, supplying data, pointing out from personal knowledge sources of information, cross-examining witnesses to elicit the hidden truth.

前州長里德出席了這個委員會，提供資料，憑親身所知指出消息來源，並盤問證人以揭出隱藏的真相。

To embarrass this damaging exposure, Judge Lecompte issued a writ against the ex- Governor on a frivolous charge of contempt.

為了阻撓這一不利的揭露，勒孔特法官以莫須有的藐視法庭罪名對前州長發出了令狀。

No posse was summoned, no further effort made, and Reeder, fearing personal violence, soon fled in disguise.

沒有召集民團，也沒有再採取任何行動，而里德擔心遭到人身暴力，不久便喬裝逃走了。

But the affair was magnified as a crowning proof that the free-State men were insurrectionists and outlaws.

但此事被誇大為自由州派是叛亂分子和亡命之徒的鐵證。

From these, again, sprang barricaded and fortified dwellings, camps and scouting parties, finally culminating in roving guerrilla bands, half partisan, half predatory.

由此又出現了設路障、築工事的住所，營地和偵察隊，最終演變成四處流竄的游擊隊，半是黨派武裝，半是劫掠團夥。

Their distinctive characters, however, display one broad and unfailing difference.

然而，他們各自的特點顯示出一個明顯而一貫的差別。

The free-State men clung to their prairie towns and prairie ravines with all the obstinacy and courage of true defenders of their homes and firesides.

自由州派以真正保家衛園者的全部頑強與勇氣，堅守著他們草原上的城鎮與溝壑。