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Updated: May 26, 2025
They knew what they were facing at this moment; not only Chief McCullagh with his policemen and their clubs; not only the subsidized "Express" with its falsehoods and ridicule: but all the political and business power of the Hickmans and Wygants. They were facing arrest and imprisonment, humiliation and disgrace perhaps ruin and starvation. Only in this way could they reach the ears of the people.
So Samuel sat down and waited; and in a few minutes John Callahan came in. He was a thick-set and red-faced Irishman, good-natured and pleasant looking-not at all like the desperado Samuel had imagined. "Say, John," said Finnegan. "This boy here used to work for Bertie Lockman; and he's got a girl works for the Wygants." "So!" said Callahan.
Before this it had been the work of the Lord that he had been doing; but now he was only serving the Wygants and the Hickmans apparently one always served them, no matter where or how he worked in this world. "You are late," said old Mr. Jacobs, the sexton, when he arrived. "Yes, sir," said Samuel. "Dr. Vince left word that he wanted to see you as soon as you came." The boy's heart gave a leap.
Samuel did not much fancy a visit to the station house, which he knew far too well already; but he would have gone into a den of lions for the sake of his cause. So, bright and early the next morning, he set out. With Mrs. Stedman's help he had persuaded Sophie that she must return to the Wygants, and so he walked part of the way with her. There was a new sergeant at the desk, an Irishman.
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