They're going to do it, anyway.

Looks like these grandees'll have to cash in their chips and quit, but it's a darned shame." As to the town, Bill told them much that had happened.

Politics were still turbulent; but Perkins' gang of hoodlums was fairly wiped out, and the Committee was working systematically and openly for the best interests of the town.

There had been a hanging the week before; a public hanging in the square, after a trial as fair as any court properly authorized could give.
"Not much like that farce they pulled off that day with Jack," asserted Bill.

"Real lawyers, we had, and real evidence for and against the feller, and tried him for real murder.