The fellers, some of 'em, thinks--some o' the _jury_ thinks--that the feller's too crazy fer to hang." "Crazy be d----d! We're goin' to hang him, an' that settles it.

Law an' order kin take care of it afterward." All the time they were shifting toward the door.

Outside the band of cattlemen who had just ridden in, fresh from the trail, and with but a partial knowledge of the arguments that had been advanced in this court, for which they had but small respect at best, settled the immediate question in an instant.

As though by concert they swung into saddle and swept off up the street in a body, above the noise of their riding now breaking a careless laugh, now a shrill yell of sheer joyous excitement.

They carried with them many waverers.