New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19

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tell Of, SAYS the little Teller, this OF playin'
/ preacher gets the medal, All the rest must
/ set down in the rear. But yore goose is
shore cooked now, all right! I'll have YOU in
| Nashville in about three days.
! SOmethin' like twenty voices bawlS from
| the nearby laurelS, I'LL be burned If you
have him in Nashville in any three days.
The Sharp-eyed man stops, still with the
pistol held ag'inst Railways back, and looks
around him. From the Raines side O the
hOller comes the RaineSeS, all told; from the
Barlow side O the holer come all o the Bar
lows Afore he could git couple o good
breaths the little Teller and his captive was
in the middle Of a ring O mad men, men 50
mad that they didn't pay no 'tention TO the
fact that they was 4 rubin elbows with
their enemies.
Il want YOU to understand that I'm a Of
fcer O the law says the sharp-eyed Teller,
"and that I've got a right to take this here
man back TO prison TO complete his term
twenty year. You see, ne adds, "FalWdy
escaped when he'd only sarvcd four year o
the sentence"
Old Grandpap Raines and Old Grandpap
Barlow each caught the officer by a arm.
Their ewes was as cold and as hard as iron
as they SEARCHED his face for some sign Of a lie.
AK Railway" says the sharp-eycd teller
IF YOU feel that you CANT take my word for
it. Railway knows
The mOuntaineers looked into Railway
death-white face.
"Preacher.7 SAYS Old Grandpap Raincs
as it so, Have YOU sarvcd four year IN the
prison at Nashville, and have YOU UT got
sixteen year afore you; You tell us the
truth. Preacher, and we'll shore stick 10 you
as long as thar's birthstone in torment-li II
hain't like the officer says. lest yorc WORD
is al we AK. We're waitin to give tins here
officer a start.
Al killed a mani" confesscs John Falway.
"What made YOU come here, and act so
good, and all O that and you q murderer;
snaps Big Abe Raincs, shalAn' his inst III
Railway face. 49,.
crowd seen that Big Abe's last word had
went to his heart like bullet: win ms
ewes a shown the pain he was IN, ne maze
this reply TO Big Abe, "Ihc man Killed J
mistook for somebody else. he man i
killed was a preacher. wanted to take ms
place in the world as far as could
\ follerin' that come a minute o silence
Nobody couldn't doubt that Falway had
told the truth-cvcn the officer couldn't,
reckon. UCll Dig HDC IIC YIN VIZ -,
pistol from him, and made him unlock the
irons on Railways wrists. $500.
"Now," says Big Abe, pushm the sharp
eyed little Teller through the crowd the same
as if he'd a been a boy, snow you GIT from
here! And YOU can tell 'em at the prison
that the only way they can git John falw,ay,
back is to send enough officers here to XII
every man, woman, and child IN flintstohc
| HOllcr" ,,r.,.
dts correct, by gyar!' says Rushin' Eek.
The officer went.
Iobn Falwav spoke to the mountaneers.
| AT mustn't be- he says. 81 Il have TO Co.
Thar mustn't be no bloodshed. God knows
that I'm much obliged, and that hate To- 60
hit thar haint no other way out OF 1t
The mountaineers argied; but Fal"ay
wouldn't listen. .u
"Peoplc, he says, "you maybe can mag
inc what I've suffered. ] want TO Ak you III
the name o that suffcrin' and in the name
that cross I'D thar to do me one favor aiCrc
90. want you al to come into the inecth
house and hear me preach one time, ana then
| Inc friends afterwards. want to have TO re-
member durin' the long years IN prison tha'
YOU done it for me.
LIE turned and went towards the door, a
IL walkin' sort O blind like. The crowd
| ri, nlI 4 rgD1ngn RIIQcS he