The incident was allowed to pass. But it was the termination of the
discussion, a termination which left Ju victor, not because of the
rightness of his views, but because there was no man in Orrville
capable of joining issue with him in debate with any hope of success.
Action rather than words was the prevailing feature with these people,
and, in his way, Ju Penrose was equal, if not superior, not only in
debate, but in the very method these people best understood.
A moment later Sikkem took his departure.
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It was well past midnight when the last man turned out of Ju's bar.
But the crowd had not yet scattered to their various homes. They were
gathered in a small, excited cluster gaping up at a big notice pasted
on the weather-boarding of the saloon-keeper's shack. Ju himself was
standing in their midst, right in front of the notice, which had been
indited in ink, evidently executed with a piece of flat wood. He was
holding up a lantern, and every eye was carefully, and in many
instances laboriously, studying the text inscribed.
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