and often admiration. It is safe to say that out of every hundred visitors
who looked only for a few seconds upon those daring and notorious men,
ninety-nine came away with very different, almost opposite opinions
concerning the lawless Younger brothers.
Was it really true that anger, malice, revenge, cruelty, hard, unyielding,
implacable hatred ever marred such countenances!—that cold, murderous,
steel-like scintillations ever beamed from those eyes? Was it possible
that blasphemous execrations and hellish denunciations ever polluted such
voices and blistered those pleasant tongues? Was it really true that those
three intelligent men—courteous and affable—had plotted and executed some
of the most cold-blooded, atrocious diabolisms ever known in modern times?
Questions, perhaps, like these, were asked of themselves by hundreds of
visitors yesterday, and left unanswered satisfactorily.