"Helped to rob the store."
"We've said so, we've said so, ever since it happened!" a chorus of stern but triumphant voices exclaimed.
"Bring up the witness ag'in' him, the man that says he did it," said 'Lijy, advancing to the open space before the pulpit.
"No man has said out an' out that he helped to do it, but Miller—"
"It's a lie," cried 'Lijy, loud enough to be heard beyond the church door.
'Zeki'l's eyes were fixed anxiously, warningly, on his brother, and once he tried to throw off the hands holding him.
"Prove it, then!" a taunting voice cried out.
"I will," said 'Lijy, though he grew pale, and trembled strangely. "A more honest man than 'Zeki'l Morgan never lived."
"What do you know of him?"
Again 'Zeki'l strove to free himself, but failed.