Arizona republican., 1898-09-21
THE OLD
 SILVER TRAIL.
BY MARY E. STICKNEY.
Continued from, Yesterday.)

(CCDt1Du6u rom eSterQay.1
 Again the check-booi might prove mightier than pen or syvord,'' ex- claimed Neil. bitterly, as he bent to scratch q new match against his boot- sole He rel:ghted his cigar. smoking for moment in gloomy silence before he added: And this is justice iE Colo radci"
 ''It is life: not much verse in Colo rado than in the rest of these United States, I fancy. As Senator Irgails Iuts il, Purity in politics is an rides cent dream. He might have gone further and said that purity in any thing is dream little likely to be real ized before the millennium. But don't take il all too seriously, Neil. As l said before, 1 doubt if Duval would dare go too far in any case. He is working for reelection. And our main reliance is on the. jury, anyway, and with them you certainly have an equal chance with the other side.''
 For which I should be lifting my eyes in thanks to heaven and deyoting myself to burnt offerings and sacrifices, ] suppose" rejoined Neil, hotly. By love, Bartels, look at it! Can you imagine a greater outrage? Here I give up some of the best years of my life to to:IinG and InoilinS in that mine, labor ing like q convict, until at last l make strike. \ rich strike; but what has it cost me? Nobody knows who has not i tried it, what it takes out Of q man to live and work for years like that. He pays the price of success out of his very arteries; he is just 50 much the poorer in actual l;fe-biCod; he has burned out that much of his candle of life, and it is gone, never to be regained. He is old and all the wealth of the world will never give him back his squandered youth. It would seem. con sidering all things, that he should be entitled to his paltry wages: but far from that, every highwaynan in the land is at liberty to harass and .lespoil him. provided only the methods are chosen with reference to the Gccornmo- dating blindness of the law. Col. Meredith walks into my mine and steals my ore; I call upon the. courts for re- dress, and justice. in beautiful iInpar- tial:ty. grants Col. Meredith as well as myself an injunction, shutting me out Of my own ore body until c1 addle- pated jury can decide to whom it really belongs. If a tramp should come along and steal my coat. 1 could have hin sent up for sixty days, with hardly the de- Hay of an hour: but this higi-tcEed thief can rob ne of thousands, ard my only redress seems to be to allow judge and jury and witnesses to rob me Of thousands more. It is enough to make man swear"
 ''Well, swear, then. It may do you good.'' laughed the lawyer, but his glance was synrathetic. Tt $ tough, for fact. Neil. But you're gene 2 lit tie too far ovor to the Pessimist.c side now. It might be =orse.''
 That is such consolation!" ejacu- lated the young man. savagely. They smoked on in silence for few moments, i say: And, by the way-of course it might be worse-''
 You don't mean that there is another item of trouhle." cjaculated the lawyer, with laugh of joking disnay. Well, don't wonder you are down." II should say not And in this in- ] stance another fellow is down as well. The superintendent has inflammatory | rheumatism. and from the doctors re- 1 port to-day it looks as though there would hardly be chance in a hundred of his getting upon jus legs again in 1 time to be in court when the case is
 called. His testimony doesn't amount i to much, to be sure; but to have it hap pen goes to prove, as 1 said before, that
 the case is hoodooed from first to last
 We need ali the help we can get
 rejoined Bartels, gravely. ''We can take his deposition de bene esse, oi
 course; but we would have to apply to the courts for leave and give the other
 side time for cross-examination, you
 know. It would make delay
 ''Then, in heavens name, let us dc ] without hirn," exclaimed Neil. with an
 air of desperation. T would rather
 run my chances than drag along this
 way day longer than necessary. Let
 Us know the worst and be done with it. g
 "Oh, in this case it will be the best
 Never fear, old fellow. Only we want
 to make as good fight as we can. Per-
 haps we can get along without your
 man, though: I will think it over and
 decide Meantime, remember that a
 man is never undone till he is hanged:
 and a case is net to he counted lost till
 it has passed the court of appeals"
 CHAPTER VI.