The hand of God

THE HAND OF GOD

By Murray Leinster

Author of “The Skipper Knows Best,” “The Red Stone,” etc.

It was very hot when the sheriff sucked meditatively at his pipe in the county jail and listened abstractedly to the buzzing of the mob outside. It was dark, of course. Mobs do not often form in daylight--not mobs who propose to lynch one not especially reputable citizen for the mur...