all the offices. I don't
know much about politics, but I've learned that much.... It's Victor
Dorn against--Dick Kelly--or Kelly and father."

Hull reddened. She had cut into quick. "You will see who is Mayor
when I'm elected," said he with all his dignity.

Jane laughed in the disagreeably mocking way that was the climax of her
ability to be nasty when she was thoroughly out of humor. "That's
right, Davy. Deceive yourself. It's far more comfortable. So long!"

And she went into the house.

Davy's conduct of the affair was masterly. He showed those rare
qualities of judgment and diplomacy that all but insure a man a
distinguished career. His statement for the press was a model of
dignity, of restrained indignation, of good common sense. The most
difficult part of his task was getting Hugo Galland into condition for
a creditable appearance in court. In so far as Hugo's meagre
intellect, atrophied by education and by luxury, permitted him to be a
lawyer at all, he was of that now common type called the corporation
lawyer. That is, for him human beings had ceased to exist, and of
course human rights, also; the world as viewed from the standpoint of
law contained only corporations, only interests. Thus, a man like
Victor Dorn was in his view the modern form of the devil--was a
combination of knave and lunatic who had no right to live except in the
restraint of an asylum or a jail.

Fortunately, while Hugo despised the "hoi polloi" as only a stupid,
miseducated snob can despise, he appreciated that they had votes and so
must be conciliated; and he yearned with the snob's famished yearning
for the title and dignity of judge. Davy found it impossible to
convince him that the injunctions and indictments ought to be attacked
until he had convinced him that in no other way could he become Judge
Galland. As Hugo was fiercely prejudiced and densely stupid and
reverent of the powers of his own intellect, to convince him was not
easy. In fact, Davy did not begin to succeed until he began to suggest
that whoever appeared before Judge Lansing the next morning in defense
of free speech would be the Alliance and Democratic and Republican
candidate for judge, and that if Hugo couldn't see his way clear to
appearing he might as well give up for the present his political
ambitions.

Hugo came round. Davy left him at one o'clock in the morning and went
gloomily home. He had known what a prejudiced ass Galland was, h