“But there is not a lynching every day?”
“No.”
“So there are not really so many attacks on the women.”
But the day-moth of his thought refused to be caught in a logical net.
“Did you ever see a man tarred and feathered?” I asked of the district attorney.
“No, but I’ve seen one lynched, and helped to lynch him,” said he.
“But lynching isn’t very good for legal business,” I hazarded.
He at once felt ruffled.
“It doesn’t make any difference to the Negro,” said he. “He hasn’t got a soul. They don’t go to heaven or hell.”