marvel she could
only murmur in wonderment, "Well, Provi-_dence_!"

Calloway Marcus no longer rides in a hollow square, but goes openly to
court to defend the railway's damage suits. Yet now that the law is
becoming adequate, he will never have the opportunity to turn it, as his
weapon of reprisal, against Jim Garvin. Retribution came to the head of
the murder syndicate with grimmer and more appropriate drama than Marcus
had planned. The judge fell behind his own counter, riddled with bullets
bought from his own shelf, and fired by the hand of his own chief
henchman and jackal.

Though one of the last of the terrorized juries sat in the box, to the
end that the slayer "came cl'ar," it is now Curt Dawson who goes
sunken-eyed and body-guarded, searching the shadows. Shots from the
laurel are few--but occasional even now--and Garvin's boy is nearing
manhood. At all events, Garvin's executioner seems convinced that
reprisal will come to him. Perhaps it is a premonition.

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