Joe's Treasure - first 22 pages  User login    “That’s right.
Joe and me was cell mates for a stretch, up in Terre Haute,
Indiana. That’s were he come to tell me this piece of the story.
“It ain’t the beginnin’, it’s just the part he told me one night
after lights out. If you wanna hear the rest of it, you’re gonna
have to go find Joe, git him to tell ya. But on that night, as
the story was told me, if you’da come up on a kerosene lamp
sittin’ on the ground, back in the woods, snug up to one of them
bayous just north of Biloxi, you’da seen two men sittin’ on the
ground, soakin’ wet, tied up to a tree, cussin’, pleadin’ and
threatenin’ the one who tied ‘um up, who happens also to be the
one this story belongs to. Anyways, it was right there in that
old cypress swamp, where he took an ax to them two fellas.
Chopped ‘um up. Not fast, but slow like, so they could watch.
Said he wanted to make sure they stayed awake long enough to
watch. He kept sayin’ that, so it musta been important. Then
what he said was that h