He was still wiping perspiration from his forehead, and he mechanically repeated to Warden the words he had uttered to himself immediately after Lawler left his office: "I'm glad it's over.

I've been dreadin' it.

He's the only one in the whole bunch that I was afraid of.

There'll be hell to pay in this section, now--pure, unadulterated hell, an' no mistake!" And then he added something that had occurred to him afterward: "If the big guys back of this thing knowed Kane Lawler as well as I know him, they'd have thought a heap before they started this thing!" "Bah!" sneered Warden; "you're raving! We know what we are doing.

You do as you're told--that's all.