Tommy Taft died on the gallows. After the execution, people gathered to discuss the event. They began to think, too, as people sometimes will when they have condemned without thinking.
"That boy's pluckier than I'd a bin," murmured an old man, as he dragged his weather-beaten body slowly through the crowd. "He wasn't a guilty, Tommy Taft wasn't."
Nobody knew the speaker, and nobody cared for what he said.
THE MUSE OF HISTORY.
By Elizabeth Porter Gould.
Clio with her flickering light
And book of valued lore,