The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-17
CHAPTER XIl-continued.

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woman l wasn't a young man, b
any means, but I'd been a fool all m
life, and | ought to have known BET
ter, and didn't. Her husband was
representative of one of the big min
ing companies, what had got wind 0
us being on the trail of something
and sent him up to investigate. III
was away for days at a time, and tn
woman was all alone in the camp.
81 got into trouble over her. He
husband come back and found us to
gether. He tried to shoot me, but
was handler, and l got the drop OF
him and killed him.
1--WE three was alone in the CAM
at the time: the woman, me, and tht
man I'd killed. 1t was a wild coun
try, but murder was a game no mar
could afford to get up against. We
left him lying there and took the
horses and rode for our lives.
"He had friends, and they set the
police on to us. We got away, though
and made for the native territories
You know how l came to be a sort of
chief there. King Seaton. I'm called,
NIL over the country. After a while
I come back. l thought it had been
forgotten.
ut ought to have been, but De Witt
had known me in the old days and
be recognized me. And he's held me
in his power ever since by threaten
ing me with the law. So that's how
| come to steal Mr.. CARROTS dia-
monds."
"What did you do with the woman? ~
shouted De Witt, s%pringing to his feet
and waving his arms ~furiously.
you've told the court this much
now go on and tell the restr"
JuLge Crawford hammered with his
gavel, hut the uproar in the court was
FOO loud for him to make his words
heard. Some were kissing, others try
ing to howl them down. But all
through the scene Judge Davis sat,
impressive and still, in his place in the
gallery.
De Witt pushed his lawyer away.
There's more to the story by a
d-n sight" he shouted. you've heard
that much, and now I'll tell the restl''
You can be heard at the proper
time, Mr.. De Witt!' cried the Judge
angrily.
There's no time like this an
swered De Witt %defiantly, striding
forward. "Put me in the witness
box! !" he shouted to Brown. "Put me
there If you dare, and I'll tell the
jury the rest of it,"
Brown, nonplused over this new de-
velopment. hesitated. But a glance
at the faces of the jury showed him
that he could not decline the chal-
lenge. He nodded to Seaton, who
stepped down. De Witt entered the
box. The clerk handed him tie tesla
ment, but De Witt brushed it aside,
and now, so keen was the interest,
ever the presiding judge failed to no
tice the irregular.ty.
"Ill tell you what l know shouted
De Witt, addressing himself to Davis
in the gallery. you've thrown me
over after I've worked for YOU these
ten years and more, you SNUG old
~canting hypocrite y he cried. "Look
at him! There he sits, clean and
sanctimonious, like a little tin god
up in the skies!"
Judge Davis certainly did look sane
timonious. His eyes were fixed upon
De Wits gravely. To those on the
floor of the courtroom Judge Davis
looked at that moment the very type
Of the Pharisee. But some Of those
near him in the gallery noticed that
the old mans eyes had in them a look
Of strained horror, as if he was ex-
some dreadful revelation.
I'm done with you now p" cried De
Witt, fiinging out his arm with a
sweeping gesture. "He knew what |
vas doing for him he knew from the
irst to last every bit of the dirty
work that nobody else would do. But
lie wouldn't soil his own hands with
t. He wouldn't listen to the details.
t vas always, Go ahead, De Witt,
f you think it proper, but don't do
~unrighteous or uncharitable.
Jncharitable! There's not a single
Irop of charitable blood in the cid
.coundrel's body!
Eyes, he knew everything, gentle
nen, and yet there was one thing that
e didn't know, and now his turn has
ONE, and he's going to know it. Ask
i'm to take off his collar and show
his throat, gentlemen. You'll find
bullet-hole there. It's healed up
ong ago. but it's burning like the
age he felt when he tried to shoot I
ack, just n second too late. That's /
hole left by Daddy Seaton's bullet, 6
nd Daddy Seaton's been running for 6
is life for twenty years because of
man he never killed. /
Look at him again, gentlemen
SIX Daddy Seaton to tell you if there v
as only the woman in the camp, or f
she didn't have a baby of six NOR S
it'll her, that she wouldn't leave be- |,
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