The Call of the Cumberlands

He was not quite certain yet that Jim Asberry had murdered his father, but he knew that Asberry was one of the coterie of killers who took their blood hire from Purvy, and he knew that Asberry had sworn to git him. To sit in the same car with these men and to force himself to withhold his hand, was a hard bullet for Samson South to chew, but he had bided his time thus far, and he would bide it to the end. When that end came, it would also be the end for Purvy and Asberry.