Justice would be done.
"Yes it will!" shouted a man below him, brandishing the butt of a raw-hide whip above his head.

"And while you jaw on about it here, he may be tied up like a dog in the woods, shot full of holes by the men you never lifted a finger to hender, because you want their votes when you run for circuit judge.

What are we doin' _here_?
What's the good of listening to you ?" There was a yell at this, and those who heard the speaker would probably have started for the Cross-Roads without further parley, had not a rumor sprung up, which passed so rapidly from man to man that within five minutes it was being turbulently discussed in every portion of the crowd.

The news came that the two shell-gamblers had wrenched a bar out of a window under cover of the storm, had broken jail, and were at large.

Their threats of the day before were remembered now, with convincing vividness.