... couldn't have said more if he had talked for a week. He'd said all there was to say, now, hadn't he? But it let the Judge out, just the same, for he just gave the circle behind him the the high sign and set the crowd to laughing for a minute or two, until the tension was relieved. I didn't laugh myself. There didn't seem to be much of a joke about it after seeing that boy's eyes. It was Bolton—Young Denny, they called him—and I got his story, their side of it at least, ... — Once to Every Man • Larry Evans
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