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Title: The Just and the Unjust

Author: Vaughan Kester

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THE JUST AND THE UNJUST

by

VAUGHAN KESTER

Author of _The Prodigal Judge_, etc.

Illustrations by M. Leone Bracker

Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers

1912

[Illustration: "Oh, I want you, Elizabeth!"]

TO MY WIFE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I FIGHTING SHRIMPLIN
II THE PRICE OF FOLLY
III STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
IV ADVENTURE IN EARNEST
V COLONEL GEORGE HARBISON
VI PUTTING ON THE SCREWS
VII THE BEAUTY OF ELIZABETH
VIII A GAMBLER AT HOME
IX THE STAR WITNESS
X HUSBAND AND WIFE
XI THE FINGER OF SUSPICION
XII JOE TELLS HIS STORY
XIII LIGHT IN DARKNESS
XIV THE GAMBLER'S THEORY
XV LOVE THAT ENDURES
XVI AT HIS OWN DOOR
XVII AN UNWILLING GUEST
XVIII FATHER AND SON
XIX SHRIMPLIN TO THE RESCUE
XX THE CAT AND THE MOUSE
XXI THE HOUSE OF CARDS
XXII GOOD MEN AND TRUE
XXIII THE LAST APPEAL
XXIV THE LAST LONG DAY
XXV ON THE HIGH IRON BRIDGE
XXVI CUSTER'S IDOL FALLS
XXVII FAITH IS RESTORED
XXVIII THE LAST NIGHT IN JAIL
XXIX AT IDLE HOUR

CHAPTER ONE

FIGHTING SHRIMPLIN

Custer felt it his greatest privilege to sit of a Sunday morning in his
mother's clean and burnished kitchen and, while she washed the breakfast
dishes, listen to such reflections as his father might care to indulge
in.

On these occasions the senior Shrimplin, commonly called Shrimp by hi