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I tell you, gentlemen, that Vrain had a chip out of his head. He fancied things, he did; but no one wanted to harm him that I know of." "Yet he died a violent death," said Denzil gravely. "That's a frozen fact, sir," cried Clyne, "and both Lyddy and I want to lynch the reptile as did it; but we neither of us know who laid him out." "I'm sure I don't," said Mrs. Vrain in a weeping voice.
He lights his cigarette, and he draws a good inhale, and he blows the smoke out like it done him a heap of good. He sees something so interesting in that little cloud of smoke that everybody else looks at it, too. "Do I understand," he says, "that some one is going to lynch some one, or something of that sort?" "That's about the size of it, colonel," says Will. "Um!" he says, "What for?"
During that time the skipper made no effort to see Flora, but was abroad from sun-up to sun-down with the men, cutting out timber for the little church as if his life depended on it. No sight or sound of Dick Lynch came back to the harbor. This gave Bill Brennen an argument in favor of loyalty to the skipper.
There had been a slight touch of pique in her treatment of Lynch, who hung around so persistently. "I wish to thunder I had an idea of how much she knows," he muttered. "Did I act like a brainless idiot when I was was that way, or not?" He had asked the same question of the hospital surgeon and got an unsatisfactory answer. It all depended, the doctor told him non-committally.
In a very short time, however, I was obliged to interfere in municipal matters in New Orleans, for it had become clearly apparent that several of the officials were, both by acts of omission and commission, ignoring the law, so on the 27th of March I removed from office the Mayor, John T. Monroe; the Judge of the First District Court, E. Abell; and the Attorney-General of the State, Andrew S. Herron; at the same time appointing to the respective offices thus vacated Edward Heath, W. W. Howe, and B. L. Lynch.
"Why, to tell you the thruth," answered the attorney, "I don't want to throuble your mother unless it's absolutely necessary; and although I have the notice ready in my pocket, if I could see Miss Lynch, I might be spared the disagreeable job of serving it on her." "The Holy Virgin save us!" said the widow; "an' what notice is it at all, you're going to serve on a poor lone woman like me?"
I want a job of five hundred a year. You can't get me one. Stephen handed him the packet of cigarettes. Lynch took the last one that remained, saying simply: Proceed! Aquinas, said Stephen, says that is beautiful the apprehension of which pleases. Lynch nodded. I remember that, he said, PULCRA SUNT QUAE VISA PLACENT.
Sherman mounted on a donkey about as large as a Newfoundland dog; Mary Lynch on another, trying to carry Lizzie on a pillow before her, but her mule had a fashion of lying down, which scared her, till I exchanged mules, and my California spurs kept that mule on his legs. I carried Lizzie some time till she was fast asleep, when I got our native man to carry her awhile.
"They'll follow me, but I'm not too well known uptown." "Hey, Professor Hartzenbosch," Mohandas Feinberg said. "You're a respectable-looking duck; you ever have any experience leading a lynch mob?" Everybody laughed. So, to his credit, did the professor. "I've had a lot of experience with children," the professor said. "Children are all savages. So are lynch mobs.
"I hope so, too," said the baronet, "yet I'll tell you frankly, Stafford, I have a feeling that the ordinary processes of the law are inadequate to trap this organisation. The law has too wide a mesh to deal with the terror which this man exercises. Such men are the only justification of lynch law, the quick, sharp justice which is administered without subtlety and without quibble."
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