instructions to operate it and preserve the proceeds subject to
the court's order. Mr. Voorhees here is the United States Marshal.
He will serve the papers."

Glenister threw up his hand in a gesture of restraint.

"Hold on! Do you mean to tell me that any court would recognize
such a claim as Galloway's?"

"The law recognizes everything. If his grounds are no good, so
much the better for you."

"You can't put in a receiver without notice to us. Why, good Lord!
we never heard of a suit being commenced. We've never even been
served with a summons and we haven't had a chance to argue in our
own defence."

"I have just said that this is a remarkable state of affairs and
unusual action had to be taken," McNamara replied, but the young
miner grew excited.

"Look here--this gold won't get away. It's safe in the ground.
We'll knock off work and let the claim lie idle till the thing is
settled. You can't really expect us to surrender possession of our
mine on the mere allegation of some unknown man. That's
ridiculous. We won't do it. Why, you'll have to let us argue our
case, at least, before you try to put us off."

Voorhees shook his head. "We'll have to follow instructions. The
thing for you to do is to appear before the court to-morrow and