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Then he halted and stood facing her. "What does ye aim ter do with thet thar paper?" he demanded. "Hit's my confession all wrote out ... an' ready ter be swore ter," she told him. "Ef ye won't heed me, I've got ter give hit ter ther jedge in open co'te." But the man who gave orders to judges shook his head.
"Quite so," said Kerfoot, raising the emptied decanter to his eye, and replacing it again with a look at Yancey expressive of the contempt in which he held a man who could commit so mean an act. "But, Colonel," said Fitz, "can't you telegraph to-morrow and find out?" "To whom, my clear Fitz? It would take a week to get the clerk of the co'te to look through the records.
"The lawyer feller, he ain't to blame," said one apologetically. "He made things look right plain. He ain't no fool." "Well, I don't know as he helt no aidge over ole Claib Benson," said another argumentatively. "Claib puts it mighty powerful." "Yes, but," said the other eagerly, "Claib means fer hangin' by the Co'te." "Shore," said a voice.
"He's done hed spies amongst ye an' he's got evidence thet no co'te kain't fail ter convict on," proceeded the witness, slowly. "He aims ter penitenshery you," his finger rose and settled, pointing toward the man who had acted as spokesman, and who was Rick Joyce. Then it rose again and fell on others, as Sim added, "an' you an' you!"
"I says, 'Squire' he wa'n't a squire, but they called him that I says, 'Squire, my name's Cavendish. Let's get acquainted quick. I'm here fo' to co'te yo' Polly. I seen her on the road a spell back and I couldn't be better suited. "He says, 'You had ought to be kivered up in salt, young man, else yo'll spile in this climate. "I says, 'I'll keep in any climate.
Thornton takes my counsel," went on the deformed leader, "he'll bid ye go back thar an' tell them folks ye comes from thet ef they'll admit him ter bail, an' pledge him a fa'r day in co'te, he'll come back thar without no conflict when ye sends fer him. But ye've got ter hev 'em agree ter let him stay over hyar till ther co'te sets ter try him.
"I didn't dast say nuthin' whilst Hump war hyar," faltered the first victim of the newly organized "riders," "an' hit's plum heedless ter tell ye anything now, but yit I did recognize one feller because his mask drapped off." "I hain't seekin' ter fo'ce no co'te evidence outen ye now, Jerry," the young leader of the Thorntons assured him.
For the young Captain they felt an instinctive liking. He was a man. Old Spicer South, restored to an echo of his former robustness by the call of action, gave the clan's verdict. "Hit hain't the co'te we're skeered of. Ef this boy goes ter town, he won't never git inter no co'te. He'll be murdered." The officer held out his hand.
"I hear it 'lowed that Square Kyahtah's too sick ter hol' co'te this evenin'," said one, "an' that the purlim'nary hearin' 'll haf ter go over 'tel nex' week." A look of disappointment went round the crowd. "Hit 's the durndes', meanes' murder ever committed in this caounty," said another, with moody emphasis. "I s'pose the nigger 'lowed the Cap'n had some green-backs," observed a third speaker.
"Thar's my co'te of jestice," he declared, and his voice trembled as with hunger and thirst. But Parish Thornton had thrown back his head and unaccountably he laughed as he laid on the other's arm fingers that closed slowly into a grip of steel and rawhide. "Hump," he said, "hit would be a turrible pity fer us ter quarrel but I don't aim ter be robbed, even by you!
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