488 LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

always used that same consecrated knife; with it he had murdered

his long array of Lynches, and
with it he had left upon the fore-
head of each victim a pecxdiar
mark — a cross, deeply incised,
Said he—
* The cross of the Mysterious
Avenger is known in Europe, in
America, in China, in Siam, in
the Tropics, in the Polar Seas, ia
the deserts of Asia, in all the
earth. Wherever in the titter-
most parts of the globe, a Lynsh
has penetrated, there has the
Mysterious Cross been seen, and
those who have seen it ha^e
shuddered and said, "It is kis
CONSECRATED KNIFE. mark, he has been her-." Yos
have heard of the Mysterious
upon him, for before you stands no less a persoa!