Besides--It seems to me I've heard somewhere the phrase 'railway judges.'" Dr.Hargrave looked gentle but strong disapproval.

"You are too pessimistic, Hampden," said he.
"The senator should not let the wounds from his political fights gangrene," suggested Whitney, with good-humored raillery.
"Have you nothing but the court remedy to offer ?" asked Scarborough, a slight smile on his handsome face, so deceptively youthful.
"That's quite enough," answered Whitney.

"In my own affairs I've never appealed to the courts in vain." "I can believe it," said Scarborough, and Whitney looked as if he had scented sarcasm, though Scarborough was correctly colorless.

"But, if you should be unable to discover any grounds for a case against the railways ?" "Then all we can do is to work harder than ever along the old lines--cut down expenses, readjust wages, stop waste." Whitney sneered politely.
"But no doubt you have some other plan to propose." Scarborough continued to look at him with the same faint smile.

"I've nothing to suggest--to-day," said he.