The Call of the Cumberlands

Then, a white flag wavered at a window, and, as the newly arrived

troops halted in the street, the noise died suddenly to quiet. Samson

went out to meet a man who opened the door, and said shortly: "We lays down."

Judge Hollman, who had not participated, turned from the slit in his

shuttered window, through which he had since the beginning been

watching the conflict.

"That ends it!" he said, with a despairing shrug of his shoulders. He

picked up a magazine pistol which lay on his table, and, carefully

counting down his chest to the fifth rib, placed the muzzle against his

breast.