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Show Walt Mason THE LAW'S DELAY Near S-'in r-'rat.eir. ... recently, thrS'-delegates thrS'-delegates were lynched the were In Jail. I their weird lb dice, for Crimea revol'lny ! pinched Ami masked man canu pei baps three s.oie. as grim as doom or fare, and strung Ihcm to a sycamore, which grogned beneath their wejghl And law abiding people then sent up an angr cry; it was a shame that untried men should thus unshrivtn die. And I for-Boqk for-Boqk my divers tasks to rant around and rail, to say those hruial men In masks BhoUtd all be lucked In Jail "No iimii should feel ihe half, i draw. CJCCept l court's decree," I sternly cried; "we have our law. and Ii should honored he " Whereat a most ;ardonie skate, who stood at my right hand, remarked. "The people would not wall in see those iivjii-canned. iivjii-canned. And " the stars above n saw a scene of death and woe; the p.-..-pte weary of ihe law. M I so beastly low a fiend Is tried and tried again, and tried another time, until the weary sons of m-m forget his ancient crime nd if at last some person arlm -Mould hide his sodden form, some governor will pa 1 don him before his bunk is warm. Or. through BOmS writ that haa a flaw, lo fresh, crlmea he may go. the people weary of the law, it Is so deadly slow.' I looked with scorn upon the jrink who talked In I sneh n way; 1 looked with scorn, but I couldn't think of anything lp sgy, |