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Colton's glass dropped

"I thought it was you that was corralling the niggers against us," he exclaimed

The Colonel reddened "I don't count all white nity, "but I know the difference between a white er"

Colton stretched out his ed you, Colonel Cresswell I'm a Southerner, and I honor the old aristocracy you represent I'ers in their places They are getting iet one they'll re rash," the Colonel charged hily "Don't stir up needless trouble; but--well, things ers need a lesson," he ood-bye Cressatched hi of doubt stirred within hiainst his black folk--his own black folk, who had lived about hie form of the sheriff loom like an evil spirit a ht He turned slowly to his cheerless house shuddering as he entered the uninviting portals