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Where is the peace and dignity of the commonwealth to come in? This is criminal. Nope, you choose. You need a lawyer." "You you-all got me locoed," said Curly, nervously. "Law! Why, I don't want no law. There ain't never been no co'te set here. Down to the county-seat, over to Lincoln, that's all right; but here why, they don't want no law here. Besides, I can't choose between you two fellers.
"I'd hate ter see any deefault of jestice," he made response, "an' I don't believe any co'te could hardly err in a case like this one.... Ken Thornton war my brother-in-law an' him an' me loved one another but ther man he kilt in cold blood war my own brother by blood an' I loved him more.
"But yourself?" "Me? I drive a freight wagon between Las Vegas and Heart's Desire. There is stores, you know, at Heart's Desire, and a saloon. We held a co'te there, onct. You see, along of cattle wars and killings, for a good many years back, folks has been kind of shy of that part of the country. Most of the men easy scared, they went back home to the States. Some stayed.
The Co'te sees no reason to regard this paper as genuine, unless Mr. Deprayne himself will state that he swore to it. The Co'te regrets that it can't produce that witness for the learned counsel. The Co'te wishes only " here he glanced significantly at the press table "to have the full facts brought out." "Will Your Honor," suggested Marcus, "instruct the sheriff to call Mr. Deprayne?"
"Jedge Kerfoot, gentlemen, of the district co'te of Fairfax County. Major Tom Yancey, of the army." The civilities over, extra chairs were brought in, the door again closed, and a council of war was held. Major Yancey's first word but I must describe Yancey.
Let's let the Co'te set another day, anyhow." "Yes, I reckon that's right; yes, that's so," said others; "we'd better wait till to-morrer." A brief silence fell upon the gathering, a silence broken only by tinklings or shufflings along the bar. Then, all at once, the sound of an excited voice rose and fell, the cry of some one out upon the gallery in the open air.
"The co'te, not being familiar with the practice of this section, can on'y decide the question in acco'dance with the practice of his own county. The language used is not objectionable, either under the law or by the code. The prisoner, Klutchem, is discharged with a reprimand, and the plaintiff, Caarter, leaves the co'te room without a stain on his cha'acter. The co'te will now take a recess."
He nach'elly scorned to bring home a squirrel shot back of the ears. He killed four men in fair knife fightin', an' each time come free in co'te. He was six foot in the clean, could hug like a bar, and he wa'n't skeered of anything that drawed the breath of life." "Tell me, Aunt Mandy," I said, "tell me how he came courting you, anyway." "He never did no great at co'tin'," said she, grinning.
So the stage was being set, and I, waiting there in concealment, was to afford the climax of the play. After an interminable time the lean, Lincoln-like face of Cal Marcus appeared at the dusty window of the court-room and I saw him pour a tumblerful of water from the broken pitcher. At the same instant one of the waiting clansmen threw open the door to announce, "They're callin' yer in co'te."
"We're tryin' him on the square. You ain't the Co'te. I kain't give him to no one but the Co'te." "We are the Co'te!" came the hot reply. "The Co'te that runs this range fer hoss-thieves an' murderers. Now, see here, Curly, we're all your friends, an' you know it, but that feller has got to hang, an' hang to-night. Git out the way. What's the matter with you?"
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