DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey

preaching to them. They was all so worked up,
and the power was with 'em so strong, and they was
so excited they wouldn't of hearn an army marching
by. He had hearn the bishop deliver a message
to his flock from the Messiah. He had seen him go
wild, afterward, and preach an equality sermon.
That was the lying message the old bishop had took
to 'em, and that Sam had told us about. But how
was this feller to know it was a lie? He believed in
it, and he told it in a straight-ahead way that would
make any one see he was telling the truth as he
thought it to be.
Then they was six other witnesses. All had been
in the gang that lynched the nigger that day. That
nigger had confessed his crime before he was lynched.
He had told how the niggers had been expecting of a
Messiah fur several days, and how the doctor was
him. He had died a-preaching and a-prophesying
and thinking to the last minute maybe he was going
to get took up in a chariot of fire.
Things kept looking worse and worse fur us.
They had the story as the niggers thought it to be.
They thought the doctor had deliberately represented
himself as such, instead of which the doctor
had refused to be represented as that there
Messiah. More than that, he had never sold a
bottle of that medicine. He had flung the idea of
selling it way behind him jest as soon as he seen
what the situation really was in the black counties.
He had even despised himself fur going into
it. But the looks of things was all the other
way.
Then the doctor give his own testimony.
"Gentlemen," he says, "it is true that I came
down here to try out that stuff in the bottle there,
and see if a market could be worked up for it. It is
also true that, after I came here and discovered
what conditions were, I decided not to sell the stuff.
I didn't sell any. About this Messiah business I
know very little more than you do. The situation
was created, and I blundered into it. I sent the