He said: "Walter, you heard me speak of Bell, the counsel who leads this circuit.

I was once so fortunate as to do him a good turn, and he has not forgotten it; he will sleep here the day after to-morrow, and he will go over that black-guard's lease: he has been in plenty of mining cases.

I have got a sort of half opinion out of him already; he thinks it contrary to the equity of contracts that minerals should pass under a farm lease where the surface of the soil is a just equivalent to the yearly payment; but the old fox won't speak positively till he has read every syllable of the lease.

However, it stands to reason that it's a fraud; it comes from a man who is all fraud; but thank God I am myself again." He started up erect as a dart.

"I'll have him off my lands; I'll drag him out of the bowels of the earth, him and all his clan." With this and other threats of the same character he marched out of the room, striking the floor hard with his stick as he went, and left Julia Clifford amazed, and Walter Clifford aghast, at his vindictive fury..