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"Yes, we got a sheriff, and we got a jail, and a judge all the makin's of law. But we ain't got one thing that goes with it, and that's justice. You'd best make up your mind like the cor'ner's jury done, that Fred Thurman was drug to death by his horse. That's all that'll ever be proved, and if you can't prove nothing else you better keep your mouth shut."
She followed with frowning, disaffected eyes the procession of men and horses and dogs and colts wending up to the invisible house hidden amongst the full-leaved autumn woods. "Well, that's the jury of view; and what do you think of them?" asked Selwyn, watching too, but smilingly, the cavalcade. "Some similar ter the cor'ner's jury.
Still silently, I pulled out with my thumb through the armhole of my vest the police badge pinned to the suspender. His ill-colored face went a shade nearer the yellow white of tallow. "What for?" he asked huskily. "You haven't got nothin' on me. It was suicide cor'ner's jury says so. Lord!
I 'lowed 't war the apple o' yer eye," he rejoined with a feint of banter. She held her face down, with her features drawn and her eyes half closed, rejecting the vision of recollection as if it were the sight itself. "I can't abide the name o' cor'ner's jury, I never wants ter hear it nor see it agin!
"Yes, we got a sheriff, and we got a jail, and a judge all the makin's of law. But we ain't got one thing that goes with it, and that's justice. You'd best make up your mind like the cor'ner's jury done, that Fred Thurman was drug to death by his horse. That's all that'll ever be proved, and if you can't prove nothing else you better keep your mouth shut."
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