He was planning and figgering in his mind all the time jest what side to ketch 'em on, and how to split up the one, solid crowd-mind into different minds.

But the little bit of a laugh he turned against Billy Harden was only on the surface, like a straw floating on a whirlpool.

These men was here fur business.
Buck Hightower jumps up and says: "Will, I'm getting tired of this court foolishness.

The question is, Does this man come into this county and do what he has done and get out again?
We know all about him.

He sneaked in here and gave out he was here to turn the niggers white--that he was some kind of a new-fangled Jesus sent especially to niggers, which is blasphemy in itself--and he's got 'em stirred up.