Some one rapped vigorously upon the door, which was immediately after opened, and Magnus and Harran came in, followed by Presley.
"Hello, hello!" cried Lyman, jumping up, extending his hands, "why, here's a surprise.

I didn't expect you all till to-night.

Come in, come in and sit down.

Have a glass of sizz-water, Governor." The others explained that they had come up from Bonneville the night before, as the Executive Committee of the League had received a despatch from the lawyers it had retained to fight the Railroad, that the judge of the court in San Francisco, where the test cases were being tried, might be expected to hand down his decision the next day.
Very soon after the announcement of the new grading of the ranchers' lands, the corporation had offered, through S.Behrman, to lease the disputed lands to the ranchers at a nominal figure.

The offer had been angrily rejected, and the Railroad had put up the lands for sale at Ruggles's office in Bonneville.