and there was a rattling powwow. But the lawyer he jumps on the table and yells, and says:

“Gentlemen — gentlemen! Hear me just a word — just a single word — if you PLEASE! There’s one way yet — let’s go and dig up the corpse and look.”

That took them.

“Hooray!” they all shouted, and was starting right off; but the lawyer and the doctor sung out:

“Hold on, hold on! Collar all these four men and the boy, and fetch them along, too!”

“We’ll do it!” they all shouted; “and if we don’t find them marks we’ll lynch the whole gang!”

I was scared, now, I tell you. But there warn’t