Apostle.'"

"And what did Paul the Apostle say? Did he own up that he was Paul?"

Reverdy halted in his tale. "Look here, Squire! I don't feel just right,
havun' you say such things. It sounds--well, like profane swearun'."

"Any worse than Dylks or Enraghty? You go right ahead, Abel. I'll take
the responsibility before the law."

"Well," Reverdy continued with a reluctance that passed as he went on,
"what Dylks told him was that he would increase his faith, so't he could
see the sights of his power, and glorify him among men, and then Enraghty
he commenced to git warm ag'in, and Dylks he turned up his eyes and kep'
still, and it was so bright all round him that it made the daylight like
dusk, and Dylks made him hark if he didn't hear a kind of rush in the air,
and Dylks said it was the adversary of souls, but he would conquer him.
They came into a deep holler in the woods and there they see the devil
standun' in their way, and Dylks he lights and hollers out, 'Fear not,
Paul; this day my work is done,' and he went towards Satan and Satan he
raised his burnun' wings and bristled his scales, and stuck out his forked
tongue and dropped melted fire from it; and he rolled his eyes in his
head, hissun' and bubblun' like sinners boilun' in hell's kittles. Then
Dylks he got down on his knees and prayed, and got up and give his shout
of Salvation, and the devil's wings fell, and he took in his tongue, and
his eyes stood still, and Dylks he blowed his breath at him, and Satan he
turned and jumped, and every jump he give the ground shook, and Dylks and
the balance of 'em follered him till the devil come to Brother Mason's
house, and then he jumped through the shut winder out of sight. They found
Brother Mason's son David in bed sick, but he got up and took Dylks in his