The rope was cut off his neck, the meal sack removed, and water thrown in his face until consciousness returned.
At the first instant he thought he was in eternity.

He gasped out: "Where am I?
Am I in the other world ?" Limber Jim muttered that they would soon show him where he was, and went on grimly fixing up the scaffold anew.

"Mosby" soon realized what had happened, and the unrelenting purpose of the Regulator Chiefs.

Then he began to beg piteously for his life, saying: "O for God's sake, do not put me up there again! God has spared my life once.

He meant that you should be merciful to me." Limber Jim deigned him no reply.