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Show READY WITH THE ROPE. The I'ital' Animosity Fostered Against Tlio Urt-Fiend. "Go on Ilolbrook'tt bond?" exclaimed one of the influential deni.ens of Bountiful. Boun-tiful. "Not much. I'd as soon go on the bonds of sat an himself, lie don't deserve any sympathy after his confessions confes-sions but" and the speaker meditating meditat-ing through.' a long pause continued. "There are people who would willingly go on bis bonds but he won't havo it." "Prefers the prison to liberty?" "Not that; lie prefers life to death." "Yes, and he knows of it. Ilolbrook has no love for Bountiful now and Bountiful can't have any less for him. He is a sinner that wo can never forgive. No penitential tithing can again naturalize him in this locality, and I daresay if he ever came back to sleep within its conlines there are people peo-ple who would niako a ghost of hiin. There are men in this valley who are ready to carry out just what Ilolbrook espoused. 'When the country was being be-ing burned up hn was the loudest to cry for the hangman and said mob-law was too good for the scamp who was causing caus-ing it. Now it turns out that he was sentencing himself and I guess he doesn't want bonds. The probabilities are that he will live longer in confine-; ment than he would were he liberated and tliis he knows. God knows I wouldn't have his biood on my hands, but everybody, particularly tho men whose homes have been swept out of existence that ho might get his insurance insur-ance money, is not gifted with the same amount of self-control. I don't blame him for embracing tho safety of the liars when he understands the feeling against him. I would do the same thing under similar circumstances." The sentiment expressed in the foro-going foro-going is of very general application among the inhabitants of the ward in which Ilolbrook formerly resided, the reason of the fire fiend's preference for the prison having already become a tradition in ollicial circles. It is very likely that any attempt of Holbrook's to visit the scene of his iiery campaign would call forth a plurality of hangmen hang-men as it was him who first frothed the fatal lesson. Leon Lecon, tho detective, to whose skill the credit of the incendiaries arrest ar-rest may be placed, says his work by night and by day to apprehend the fire fiends has never 'been compensated and that after bringing the perpetrator of them into court and confession he ascertains as-certains that the interested insurance company is the only ono of tho large number'that does not pay a reward in such cases. The gentleman has done faithful and ellicient service and de serves better. |