It follows that the title to the lands in question is in the plaintiff--the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad, and the defendants have no title, and their possession is wrongful.

There must be findings and judgment for the plaintiff, and it is so ordered." In spite of himself, Magnus paled.

Harran shut his teeth with an oath.
Their exaltation of the previous moment collapsed like a pyramid of cards.

The vision of the new movement of the wheat, the conquest of the East, the invasion of the Orient, seemed only the flimsiest mockery.
With a brusque wrench, they were snatched back to reality.

Between them and the vision, between the fecund San Joaquin, reeking with fruitfulness, and the millions of Asia crowding toward the verge of starvation, lay the iron-hearted monster of steel and steam, implacable, insatiable, huge--its entrails gorged with the life blood that it sucked from an entire commonwealth, its ever hungry maw glutted with the harvests that should have fed the famished bellies of the whole world of the Orient.
But abruptly, while the four men stood there, gazing into each other's faces, a vigorous hand-clapping broke out.