. After that he gave
them a little political lecture, you might say. He explained to them
just how he looked at the political questions--always from the
standpoint of the working people.

"Sitting beside me was an old man, a Professor of Law they told me he
was. He sat there with his eyes fastened upon Karl, listening with all
his ears to every word. 'Splendid! Splendid! Wonderful logic,' I heard
him say to himself. 'What a lawyer that man would make!' I watched the
faces of the jury and it was plain to see that Karl was making a deep
impression upon them, though they were all middle class men. Even the
old judge forgot himself and nodded and smiled when Karl's logic made
the prosecution look foolish. You could see that the old judge was
admiring the wonderful mind of the man before him.

"Well, the three prisoners were acquitted by the jury and Karl was
greatly pleased when the jury sent one of their members over to say
that they had passed a vote of thanks to 'Doctor Marx' for the very
interesting and instructive lecture he had given them. I tell you,
boy, I was prouder than ever of Karl after that, and went straight
home and wrote letters to half a dozen people in Treves that I knew,
telling them all about Karl's great speech. You see, I knew that he
would never send word back there, and I wanted everybody in the old
town to know that Karl was making a great name in the world.

"The government got to be terribly afraid of Karl after that trial,
and when revolutionary outbreaks occurred all through the Rhine
Province, the following May, they suppressed the paper and expelled
Karl from Prussia.

"We had a meeting of the executive committee to consider what was to
be done. Karl said that he was going to Paris at once, and that his
wife and children would follow next day. Engels was going into the
Palatinate of Bavaria to fight in the ranks, with Annecke, Kinkel, and
Carl Schurz. All the debts in connection with the paper had been paid,
he told us, so that no dishonor could attach to its memory.

"It was not until afterward that we heard how the debts of the paper
had been paid. Karl had pawned all the silver things belonging to his
wife, and sold lots of furniture and things to get the money to pay
the debts. They were not his debts at all, and if they were his
expulsion would have been a very good reason for leaving the debts
unpaid. But he was not one of that kind. Honest as the sun, he was. It
was just like him