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Anyway , it 's where the town picnic ground is located now , on our property , partly . It used to be a lead mine , and during the Civil War a lot of Southern bullets came from there . '' From Jan 's tone of voice , Rick suspected that her sympathies were with the lost Southern cause , which was natural enough , since her ancestry was pure Virginian for several generations . `` The mine was n't worked on Sunday , in those days , and Captain Costin asked Ellen to meet him on a Sunday night at nine o'clock . Well , the Lansdale boys somehow found out where their sister was going , and they went , too . And they shot down Captain Costin in cold blood , right at the mine entrance . Just when he was holding out his arms to greet his sweetheart ! ''