“He rolled a cigareet with determination, and he answers, ‘Mebbe,’ and the only other words I heard from him was when he stepped on a shoe in his bare feet and come down on some place that was sore from the kind attentions of his lady friend, and he strangled for three minutes, gritting his teeth so I could hear ’em squeak in the darkness, and then he says:
“‘Blessed be the peacemakers!’”
THE END
Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.
Spelling of dialect words not changed.
Page [1]: Transcriber added chapter number (“I”) to the heading, for consistency with the rest of the book, and deleted the redundant hemi-title.