Jackson:     This  and  this  for  Jackson.
Coffek:     For  Jackson.
Jackson:     Foul  coupling.
Coffee:  'Tis  the  money,  ten  thousand  dollars  re-
turned for  your  abortive  march.
Jackson:  'Tis  tainted  (reads)  Your  money  is  ten  thou-
sand —  Your  name  is  dastard  —  Thomas!

Coffee:     Thomas  I

Jackson:  (Reads)  You  thought  you  shop  by  warrior
how  to  shoot  a  Bento^  while   I  lobbied  for  you  —  Double

false.
Coffee:     I  told  you  not.
Jackson:     Damnation  to  "told  you  not".
Coffke:     No  prudence.
Jackson:  Deep  damnation  to  prudence  —  1  stickled
peace  between  them,  but  Jesse  would  bullet  the  cock
horse  Carrol  down.  —  How  he  disdained  conciliation  with
such  untraceable  spawn  —  Benton  had  all  Cottondom  at
his  back  —  Carrol  had  only  Listria  to  stand  second  if  I
refused.
Coffee:     O  blast  it  I

Jackson:  Carrol  shot  Jesse  for  Carrol  's  the  better
man  —  Blast  this  money  too  —  Take  it  l)ack  to  Benton.
(Flings  it  down).
Coffee:     And  what  answer.
Jackson:  This  (giving  whip)  or  thi»  (giving"  gun  —
Exit  Coffee  and  scen^e  ends.)


—  12  —

ACT   3.— Scene  2.
Nashville  Motel.   Voices  coming  in.
First  Voice:     Steady  there.
Second  Voice:     Mind  his  hand.
(Enter  Hays,  Coftee  and  men  bearing  Jackson  on  a
stretcher  covered  up,  a  whip  hanging  out.)

Hays:  Oh  Almighty!  he's  dead!  gone  in  the  childhood
of  his  glory  —  I'll  meet  the  Bentons  for  this.
Coffee:  Or  1  will  —  but  how?  Must  I  put  what  little
I  am,  and  what  littlo  I  may  be;  as  he  put  all  he  was,  and
all  he  might  be,  into  a  gutter  fig'htV  — Lay  out  my  slow
gains  of  glory  as  he  laid  out  his  inheritance  to  make  a
few  bankrupt  bones.
