u people, blind, bound,
tricked, betrayed, can you not see it? Can you not see how the monsters
have plundered your treasures and holding them in the grip of their
iron claws, dole them out to you only at the price of your blood, at the
price of the lives of your wives and your little children? You give your
babies to Moloch for the loaf of bread you have kneaded yourselves.
You offer your starved wives to Juggernaut for the iron nail you have
yourselves compounded."

He spent the night over his journal, writing down such thoughts as
these or walking the floor from wall to wall, or, seized at times with
unreasoning horror and blind rage, flinging himself face downward upon
his bed, vowing with inarticulate cries that neither S. Behrman nor
Shelgrim should ever live to consummate their triumph.

Morning came and with it the daily papers and news. Presley did not even
glance at the "Mercury." Bonneville published two other daily journals
that professed to voice the will and reflect the temper of the people
and these he read eagerly.

Osterman was yet alive and there were chances of his recovery. The
League--some three hundred of its members had gathered at Bonneville
over night and were patrolling the streets and, still resolved to
keep the peace, were even guarding the railroad shops and buildings.
Furthermore, the Leaguers had issued manifestoes, urging all citizens
to preserve law and order, yet summoning an indignation meeting to be
convened that afternoon at the City Opera House.

It appeared from the newspapers that those who obstructed the marshal
in the discharge of his duty could be proceeded against by the District
Attorney on information or by bringing the matter before the Grand Jury.
But the Grand Jury was not at that time in session, and it was known
that there were no funds in the marshal's office to pay expenses for the
summoning of jurors or the serving of processes. S. Behrman and Ruggles
in interviews stated that the Railroad withdrew entirely from the fight;
the matter now, according to them, was between the Leaguers and the
United States Government; they washed their hands of the whole business.
The ranchers could settle with Washington. But it seemed that Congress
had recently forbade the use of troops for civil purposes; the whole
matter of the League-Railroad contest was evidently for the moment to be
left in status quo.

But to Presley's mind the most important piece of news that morning was