jest as well save my breath?"

He straightened his thin shoulders and stretched his arms.

"It couldn't a-been handled much neater, either," that one-sided
conversation went on, "not anyway you look at it. I always did think
that the best thing to do in them matters was to kinda let 'em take
their own course. And now--now I guess I'll be gittin' along down!"

* * * * *

Before he opened the door of the Tavern office a scant half hour
later, Denny Bolton stopped there on the steps a moment and, his hand
on the latch, listened to the thin, falsetto voice that came from
within. A slow smile crept up and wrinkled the corners of the boy's
eyes after a while when he had caught the drift of those strident
words.

They had been waiting for him--the regulars. They had been waiting for
him longer than Old Jerry knew. In the chair that had been the
throne-seat of the town's great man the servant of the Gov'mint sat
and faced his loyal circle.

He had reached his climax--had hammered it home. Now he was rounding
out his conclusion for those who hung, hungry-eyed, upon his
eloquence.

"I ain't begun to do it jestice yet," he apologized. "I ain't more'n
jest teched on a good many things that needs to be gone into a
trifle. Jest a trifle! It'll take weeks and weeks to do that. But
as I was a-sayin'--I got there! I got there just when I was needed
almighty bad. I ain't done that part of it jestice--but you'll see it
all in the papers in a day or two--Sunday supplement, maybe--and
pictures--and colors, too, I reckon!"

THE END

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This is a novelization of the immensely successful play which ran for two
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The plot of this powerful novel is of a young woman's revenge directed
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