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baid nights Reckon Ahm de thievenest one us two, Xenophon, keepin' all

dis wood stock' up when you got none,' he say, jesso Tek me in; say he

lahk a thief Pay one

shot lais' night" He raised his head sharply, and the loomy eyes intensified as they opened wide and stared at the sky,

unseeingly

"Ise baid a cawl!" he exclaimed, loudly His twisted frame was braced

to an extreme tension "Ise baid a cawl! De blood anssuh!"

"It wasn't the Cross-Roads, Uncle Xenophon," said Warren S his

hand on the old man's shoulder

Xenophon rose to his feet He stretched a long, bony arid and silent, like a seer; then

spoke: "De ht o' day

An' hiid body till the arm pointed

northwest--"he lies yondeh You won't find hien 'im heah Dis whim dey lay 'im down Ise baid

a cawl!"

There were excla authority Suddenly he turned and pointed his outstretched hand

full at Judge Briscoe