have the receiver dismissed. If your title is as good as you say
it is, you won't have any trouble."

"You're not the only ones to suffer," added McNamara. "We've taken
possession of all the mines below here." He nodded down the gulch.
"I'm an officer of the court and under bond--"

"How much?"

"Five thousand dollars for each claim."

"What! Why, heavens, man, the poorest of these mines is producing
that much every day!"

While he spoke, Glenister was rapidly debating what course to
follow.

"The place to argue this thing is before Judge Stillman," said
Struve--but with little notion of the conflict going on within
Glenister. The youth yearned to fight--not with words nor quibbles
nor legal phrases, but with steel and blows. And he felt that the
impulse was as righteous as it was natural, for he knew this
process was unjust, an outrage. Mexico Mullins's warning recurred
to him. And yet--. He shifted slowly as he talked till his back
was to the door of the big tent. They were watching him carefully,
for all their apparent languor and looseness in saddle; then as he
started to leap within and rally his henchmen, his mind went back
to the words of Judge Stillman and his niece. Surely that old man
was on the square. He couldn't be otherwise with her beside him,
believing in him; and a suspicion of deeper plots behind these