"Whe-ew! You'll deliver him by the strength of your arm, my little
Donna Quixota."
"I'll save him one way or another, now mind I tell you! He sinned
more against me than against anybody else, and so I have the best
right of anybody in the world to forgive him, and I do forgive him!
And he shan't be hanged I I say it!"
"You say it! Ha! ha! ha! Who are you, to turn aside the laws?"
"I, Capitola Black, say that Donald Bayne, not having deserved to be
hanged, shall not be hanged! And in one way or another I'll keep my
word!"
And Cap did her best to keep it. The next morning she mounted Gyp
and rode up to Tip Top, where she employed the village lawyer to
draw up a petition to the Governor for the commutation of Donald
Bayne's sentence. And then she rode all over the county to try to
get signatures to the document. But all in vain. People of every age
and condition too thoroughly feared and hated the famous outlaw, and
too earnestly wished to be entirely and forever rid of him, to sign
any petition for a commutation of his sentence. If a petition for
his instant execution had been carried around it would have stood a
much better chance of success.
Cap spent many days in her fruitless enterprise, but at last gave it
up--but by no means in despair, for--
"I'll save his life, yet! by one means or another! I can't change
clothes with him as I did with Clara; he's too big, but one way or
other I'll save him," said Cap, to herself.
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