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ought to shout him down. After all Will Bankhead was dead. He had gone to his reward, or his punishment, or whatever it was. It seemed to me that the only thing that was necessary was to give him the privacy that death really does provide a man with. Why Will Bankhead's troubles, sorrows, griefs and religious problems should have been aired to that audience, I don't know.

I said to some body sitting beside me, “I think he's lying.” He told about how Will Bankhead had come into his office over and over again to confess his sins, to seek comfort of religion, and would tell him, that crazy, old, loud-mouthed chaplain, about things he'd done that he thought were wrong, asking him to assure him of his salvation through the death of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It saw just shocking. If Will Bankhead ever went to see him about anything except the appointment of a sub-chaplain or a clerk, I doubt it. If he had, it certainly was incumbent upon the chaplain to keep it strictly to himself.

Then he went on to tell us exactly the details of Will Bankhead's religious faith, how he always carried a Crucifix in his pocket. That, I thought, would be very shocking to the people of Jasper, who are Methodists and Baptists preponderantly and don't go around with





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