When Buck Hightower sets down the chairman clears his throat like he is going to speak.

But-- "Just a moment," says Doctor Kirby, getting on his feet, and taking a step toward the chairman.

And the way he stopped and stood made everybody look at him.

Then he went on: "Once more," he says, "I call the attention of every man present to the fact that what the last speaker proposes is--" And then he let 'em have that word agin, full in their faces, to think about-- "MURDER! Merely murder." He was bound they shouldn't get away from that word and what it stood fur.

And every man there DID think, too, fur they was another little pause.