CHAPTER XXX.
"BROTHER SODOM." In order to explain Walter Johnson's testimony and his state of mind, I must carry the reader back nearly a week.

The scene was Dr.Small's office.

Bud and Walter Johnson had been having some confidential conversation that evening, and Bud had got more out of his companion than that exquisite but weak young man had intended.

He looked round in a frightened way.
"You see," said Walter, "if Small knew I had told you that, I'd get a bullet some night from somebody.

But when you're initiated it'll be all right.