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In the foreglow of dawn they gathered in the Square and listened to Warren

Smith, who o

slow They answered hi voice heard, and bade the rash; no facts were known, he

said; it was far from certain that harm had been done, and no one knew

that the Six-Cross-Roads people had done it--even if so had

happened to Mr Harkless He declared that he spoke in Harkless's na could distress him so much as for them to defy the law, to take

it out of the proper hands Justice would be done

"Yes it will!" shouted athe butt of a raw-hide

whip above his head "And while you jaw on about it here, hein the woods, shot full of holes by the er to hender, because you want their votes when you run for circuit

judge What are we doin' here? What's the good of listening to you?"

There was a yell at this, and those who heard the speaker would probably

have started for the Cross-Roads without further parley, had not a ru up, which passed so rapidly fro turbulently discussed in every portion of the crowd

The news caamblers had wrenched a bar out of a

under cover of the store Their

threats of the day before were re vividness