"Doc" Smith arrived at that juncture and found the boys listening intently for a resumption of the picturesque profanity.

It was some time before the crowd became large enough to inspire a visit to the interior of the calaboose.

As became his dignity, Bud led the way.
The old woman, unable to endure the pain any longer, and knowing full well that her days were bound to end in prison, had managed, in some way, to hang herself from a window bar beside her bed, using a twisted bed sheet.

She was quite dead when "Doc" made the examination.

A committee of the whole started at once to notify Anderson Crow.