he was sure of that.

CHAPTER XV. OUTWARD BOUND

Joel Mazarine did not take the trail to Tralee immediately after he
found his wagon and horses in the shed of the Methodist Meeting
House. As he drove through the main street of Askatoon again, his
lawyer--Burlingame's rival--waved a hand towards him in greeting. An
idea suddenly possessed the old man, and he stopped the horses and
beckoned.

"Get in and come to your office with me," he said to the lawyer.
"There's some business to do right off."

The unpopularity of a client in no way affects a lawyer. Indeed, the
most notorious criminal is the greatest legal advertisement, and the
fortunate part of the business is that no lawyer is ever identified
with the morals, crimes or virtues of his client, yet has particular
advantage from his crimes. So it was that Mazarine's lawyer enjoyed the
public attention given to his drive through the town with Mazarine. He
could hear this man say, "Hello, what's up!" or another remark that the
Law and the Gospel were out for war.

Just as they were about to enter the office, however, Jonas Billings,
who had a faculty for being everywhere at the interesting moment, said,
so as to be heard by Mazarine and his lawyer, and all others standing
near.

"Goin' to leave his property away from his wife! Makin' a new will--eh?
That's it, stamp on a girl when she's down! When you can't win the
woman, keep the cash. Woe is me, Willy, but the wild one rageth!"

Jonas' drawling, nasal, high-pitched sarcasm reached Mazarine's ears and
stung him. He lurched round, and with beady eyes blinking with malice,
said roughly: "The fool is known by his folly."

"You don't need to label yourself, Mr. Mazarine," retorted Jonas with a
grin.

The crowd laughed in approval. The loose lower lip of the Master of
Tralee quivered. The leviathan was being tortured by the little sharks.

Presently the door of the lawyer's office slammed on the street, and
Mazarine proceeded to make a new will, which should leave everything
away from Louise. After he had slowly dictated the terms of the will,
with a glutinous solemnity he said:

"There; that's what comes of breaking the laws of God and man. That's
what a woman loses who doesn't do her duty by the man that can give
her everything, and that's give her everything, while she plays the
Jezebel."

"I'll complete this for you, and you can sign it now," remarked the
lawyer evasively, not without shrinking; "b