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...deep and shrill blended together, struck through with the note of an automobile horn continuously blowing. They were in the lane, they were coming up the hill, they were at the door. Lights glared in the warehouse; hands reached for the huddled shadow; they hanged Albert Blazes to a beam. To the sheriff and his deputies all this was a familiar sight. Yet when at length the body stopped twitching and the last masked executioner went home to bed, the sheriff and his men lingered in the warehouse, talking about a variation which distinguished this lynching from all other lynchings...
...BEAM'S?The glittering tale of how Bluebeard and his next intended came to an English boarding house...
This small Walt awes her somewhat. He is affectionate, demonstrative, but utterly imperturbable, even before his father's taciturn anger or tenderness. When, by 16, he has towered up to his father's height and beam, his mother has accepted as inscrutable in him a poise that seems a latent power, like a wind not yet blowing...
...BEAM'S?The facile tale of two horrible malefactors turned loose in a placid English boarding house...
...BEAM'S ? Have you ever lived in a stuffy boarding house at which there arrived a man who had murdered 37 wives...