That was the lying message the old bishop had took to 'em, and that Sam had told us about.

But how was this feller to know it was a lie?
He believed in it, and he told it in a straight-ahead way that would make any one see he was telling the truth as he thought it to be.
Then they was six other witnesses.

All had been in the gang that lynched the nigger that day.

That nigger had confessed his crime before he was lynched.

He had told how the niggers had been expecting of a Messiah fur several days, and how the doctor was him.