Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-15

we git detectives from Nashville. I've got to catch
Copperhead Sewers myself.
We set back down and went to thinkln. Our cigars
had done gone out, and thrOwed EN- IN the fire.
Then | spoke.
81 haint got no advice to offer" | says, mighty nigh
in a whisper II like YOU too much to to you
put voresclf in danger. like the pore little Children
much to want to you give up the fight until the
law git Sewers out o yore way. You do as you
ter for YOU to catch Copperhead 1t would be the max
in of you the eyes o the people, and yore size and
youngness wouldn't count nothln ag inst you then.
Still, | saws, Il haln't advisn' YOU to try 1t.
I'm little man, and Sewers is big man., says
Thayer lookin thoughtful like at the fire. "lve got
a class o brains, though he goes on, that Sewers
hain got So it's brains ag inst brute strength Grand
pap says he, and brains is the best gnat can make
giant wince-in his eye. Say, he declars S, straight
enn up in his splin bottomed chair, I'm goin to git
in the giants eye, that's edzactly what I'm a gon to
How his face did light up he gazed at me and
waited to what had to say about 1t! But had
done spoke sentiments aore, and didn't make no
remarks in regvards to what he Jest sad; although
| did look at him aCnirn like.
THEN the doctor he changed his gaze from me to the
winder O. the cabin which was in the wall
acrOst the from the door, and his face went
little white. | turned my head quick, and seen the
same thing he'd seen-jest beyant the glass thar was
the Cevilish and c1nnin face o that lowdown Copper
head Sewers He'd been a llstenn to what we q been
4 takin' bout-whch we'd ought o knowed atore
found out by what he said minute later,-and he
was a silin and grndin his teeth at the same time
which was his danger signal.
Don't reach for a gum" l whispers, plumb afeard
that was g9h to witness the paSSn lto r 1e nice e
lift above the windersll, | says, and he's jest dy1n
to take crack at you.
Then Copperhead he pushes back his SLOUGH hat
raises his left fist and snashes out the four panes
glass, them and the light woodwork that held EN- 1n
at one single blow. His face coser, and pretty
soon half O his head is in the room.
$50 it's brains ag inst brute strength, IS 1t? he sneers
and the Old Scratch hisself couldn't beat Copper
head Sewers snecrin. Il reckon | hain't got no
brains myself hey? Why YOU pore little makeshft of
a man. YOU weekly dried-up pineworm, I've got more
in nlnuten you ever did have IN all o yore
life! So YOU re gon to capture me- are you: Pun.
You couldn't make me spill gourd o water. For two
cents, yorc hide I'd come in thar and put you
kneel"
Don't say nothn', Doc." manages to whisper; but
it so loud that Copperhead hsself heerd me plain
He'd better not say nothn, says Copperhead, a
smn' and grndin his teeth "If he does it d better
be a prar Remember, Doc he says ito don't let
another sun go down YOU here.
For whole minute the stared at each other,
and | could tell by the way the doctors blue eyes
snapped that it was all he could do hold his tongue
Then Copperhcad he shifted, jerked up his red head,
and waded off into the night as silent as ghost.
watch and see if don't git him. says lhayer to
me, so mad that he couldn't hardly tall. you'll find
thct brains will always win out ag inst brute strength
] don't know VT how I'm goin' to do it. but I'll do
it, Jest the sa1ncl'
BE keerful for goodness sake!" l says. q" know it's
O. old woman talk; but its good advice in this in
stance"
And when l started to go to my cabin a hour later
Thayer he told me that he was gon after the bad
the next day.
WELL I'd told my old wife about the rowdy S visit
w and the doctors partin words to me, that night
after I'd got home and she made me haul out o bed
early the mornn and go down to try to persuade
Thayer go. | raped on the door several times
and got nothin' but echoes for my trouble. | then
walked out hunderd yards scch a matter beyant
the cabin and called, thnkin maybe Doc out for
his reg lar mornn' walk; but seen nor heers nothin