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Before theof the rains, and

while the air held its sparkle of autumnal zestfulness, Samson South

wrote to Wilfred Horton that, if he still meant to come to the hills

for his inspection of coal and ti transit and chain, drawing a line which a railroad

was to follow to Misery and across it to the heart of untouched forests

and coal-fields With that wave of innovation would co to be out in the

hills with a palette and a sheaf of brushes in the society of George

Lescott

For a while after the battle at Hixon, the county had lain in a torpid

paralysis of dread Many illiterate feudists on each side reure of Saun smoke, and believed him immune from death With Purvy dead and

Hollman the victim of his own hand, the backbone of the murder

syndicate was broken Its heart had ceased to beat Those Hollman

survivors who bore the potentialities for leadership had not only

signed pledges of peace, but were afraid to break the their victory, had subscribed to

the doctrine of order, and declared the war over

Souths who broke the

laere as speedily arrested as Holl as

the sons of the eneradually, but the

beginnings of them were most noticeable in the first few months, just

as a newly painted and renovated house isrespectable

Hollman's Mammoth Department Store passed into new hands, and