Doctor Kirby
said afterward that was what come of being real
"quality," which was what Colonel Tom was--
it was that in him that licked 'em. It was the best
part of their own selves, and the best part of their
own country, speaking out of him to them, that done
it. Mebby so. Anyhow, after a minute more of
that strain, a feller by the door picks up his gun out
of the corner with a scrape, and hists it to his
shoulder and walks out. And then Colonel Tom
says to Will, with his eyebrow going up, and that
one-sided grin coming onto his face agin:
"Will, perhaps a motion to adjourn would be in
order?"
CHAPTER XXII
So many different kinds of feeling had been
chasing around inside of me that I had
numb spots in my emotional ornaments
and intellectual organs. The room cleared out of
everybody but Doctor Kirby and Colonel Tom and
me. But the sound of the crowd going into the road,
and their footsteps dying away, and then after
that their voices quitting, all made but very little
sense to me. I could scarcely realize that the dan-
ger was over.
I hadn't been paying much attention to Doctor
Kirby while the colonel was making that grand-
stand play of his'n, and getting away with it. Doc-
tor Kirby was setting in his chair with his head sort
of sunk on his chest.
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