Slavin has been killed, and nine out of ten among you are secretly glad of it.

He was a curse to this camp, but because some of his friends and cronies--thugs, gamblers, and dive-keepers--accuse Bob Hampton of having killed him, you start in blindly to lynch Hampton, never even waiting to find out whether the charge is the truth or a lie.

You act like sheep, not American citizens.

Now that we have pounded a little sense into some of you, perhaps you'll listen to the facts, and if you must hang some one put your rope on the right man.

Bob Hampton did not kill Red Slavin.