But I don't
think he was figgering on anything then, or had any
plan up his sleeve. He had made up his mind he
was going to die, and he was so mad because he
couldn't get in one good lick first that he was nigh
crazy. I looked to see him lose all sense in a minute,
and rush amongst them guns and end it in a
whirl.
But jest as I figgered he was on his tiptoes fur
that, and was getting up my own sand, he throwed
a look my way. And something sobered him. He
stood there digging his finger nails into the palms
of his hands fur a minute, to get himself back. And
when he spoke he was sort of husky.
"That boy there," he says. And then he stops
and kind of chokes up. And in a minute he was
begging fur me. He tells 'em I wasn't mixed up
in nothing. He wouldn't of done it fur himself,
but he begged fur me. Nobody had paid much
attention to me from the first, except Buck High-
tower had put in a good word fur me. But some-
how the doctor had got the crowd listening to him
agin, and they all looked at me. It got next to me.
I seen by the way they was looking, and I felt it in
the air, that they was going to let me off.
But Doctor Kirby, he had always been my friend.
It made me sore fur to see him thinking I wasn't
with him. So I says:
"You better can that line of talk.
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