You see that sort of thing is my element, an' I've been away from it for a spell.

But we didn't find Tull in one of them places.

Some Gentile feller at last told Venters he'd find Tull in that long buildin' next to Parsons's store.

It's a kind of meetin'-room; and sure enough, when we peeped in, it was half full of men.
"Venters yelled: 'Don't anybody pull guns! We ain't come for that!' Then he tramped in, an' I was some put to keep alongside him.

There was a hard, scrapin' sound of feet, a loud cry, an' then some whisperin', an' after that stillness you could cut with a knife.