had come for the express purpose of hearing him, the
famous advocate from the East, sum up for the crown.

Indeed, in his opinion, there was no one else in the case. Denholm for
the defense was a sharp and clever lad, but a mere lad! As for the
judge--well one knows these judges in the outlying provinces!

The people of Prince George did not often get a chance to listen to a
man like him, therefore he wished to give them the worth of their money.

He was a dignified, ruddy little gentleman, clad in a well turned
cutaway that fell from his highly convex middle like the wings of a
pouter pigeon.

"My lord and gentlemen of the jury," he began in a voice of insinuating
modesty and sweetness, "in this room during the past four days we have
witnessed the unfolding of an extraordinary drama.

"Through all the criminal annals of this country we may search in vain
for a precedent to this case. In the past we have had to try Indians
and half-breeds for rebelling against the government.

"In such cases punishment was always tempered with mercy; we were in
the position of a parent chastising his child.

"Here we are faced by a different situation. Here we have a white man,
one of our own race charged with inciting and leading the natives to
rebel against authority. By tongue and deed he strove to unloosen the
passions of hell to his own profit!

"Every man of middle age in this Western country knows what Indian
warfare means. The flesh crawls at the picture of shrieking, painted
demons that is called up, the flames, the tortures, the dishonored
homes--gentlemen, it--it is difficult for me to speak of this matter
with a becoming restraint.

"When we come to examine the evidence we are faced by a well-nigh
inextricable confusion. But, gentlemen, the main issue is clear.

"We see the prisoner having made his first false step drawn by
inevitable succession deeper and deeper into the quicksands of passion
and violence. Out of the mass of details I ask you to choose three
facts which in themselves constitute a strong presumptive case.

"First, the trouble at Fort Enterprise--that pleasant little Eden of
the far north, invaded, alas! by the serpent--the beginning of the
trouble I say was exactly coincident with the arrival of Ambrose Doane.

"Second, in every scene of violence that followed we find him a leading
figure. Third, all trouble ceased upon his arrest.

"Let us glance in passing at the first act of lawles