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That August court day was ato town to take up his duties Every one recognized it as the

day of final issue, and one that could hardly pass without bloodshed

The Holl in their last trench, saw only the blunt

question of Hollman-South supreain into eruption, but never before had a South

sought to throw his outposts of power across the waters of Crippleshin,

and into the county seat That the present South ca

commission as an officer of the law only made his effrontery the more

unendurable

Sa and

disciplining of his own co the

waters of Misery They were a slouching, un to fight, and Callo them into rudimentary shape After all, they

were as much partisans as they had been before they were issued State

rifles The battle, if it caht of

twenty-five years ago, when the Hollmans held the store and the Souths

the court-house But back of all that lay one essential difference, and

it was this difference that had urged the Governor to stretch the forerous power into the hands of one man That

difference was the man himself He was to take drastic steps, but he