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"Now, look here, men! If you want anyis our trade, and we don't ht now, and straight off the handle,

that you are si a parcel of fools of yourselves Slavin has

been killed, and nine out of ten alad of it He

was a curse to this caa killed him, you start in blindly to lynch Hae is the truth or a lie You act

like sheep, not American citizens Now that we have pounded a little

sense into some of you, perhaps you'll listen to the facts, and if you

ht man Bob Hampton did not

kill Red Slavin The felloho did kill him cliot ahile you were chasing the

wrong man Mr Wynkoop saw him, and so did your schoolteacher, Miss

Spencer"

Then Wynkoop stepped gamely to the front "All that is true,ever since to tell you, but no one would listen Miss

Spencer and I both saw the ht arm and hand He was a misshapen creature whom neither of us

ever saw before, and he disappeared on a run up that ravine I have no

doubt he was Slavin's murderer"

No one spoke, the crowd apparently ashamed of their actions But Brant

did not wait for any outward expression