Meanwhile, however, Fowler had cut up another prominent citizen, and they already had him in jail.

The friends of law and order feeling some little distrust as to the permanency of their own zeal for righteousness, thought it best to settle the matter before there was time for cooling, and accordingly, headed by Simpson, the mayor, the judge, the Turk, and other prominent citizens of the town, they broke into the jail and hanged Fowler.

The point in the hanging which especially tickled my friend's fancy, as he lingered over the reminiscence, was one that was rather too ghastly to appeal to our own sense of humor.

In the Turk's mind there still rankled the memory of Fowler's very unprofessional conduct while figuring before him as a criminal.

Said Simpson, with a merry twinkle of the eye: "Do you know that Turk, he was a right funny fellow too after all.