For while there was no doubt in his mind that Warden had been implicated in all the attacks that had been made upon him, he had no legal proof--except the confession, signed by Link and Givens--that Warden was guilty.
And, now that he had been elected, he intended to keep silent regarding the confession.

He hated Warden, but it was with something of the passion a man feels who treads upon a poisonous reptile that attacks him.
He meant to be generous in the moment of victory.

Those men--Warden, Perry Haughton, Hatfield, and the officials of the railroad company--had performed according to their lights, using whatever power and influence was at hand to gain their ends.

But they had failed.

Several bills now pending in the legislature would effectually curb the powers of those men and others of their kind; and he would see to it that there never would be another opportunity for that sort of practice.
Lawler got up after a time, and walked to one of the big windows, where he stood for some minutes looking out.