would be tried. There came no answer to it, however,
and at last, the day before New Year's, Jurgis bade good-
by to Jack Duane. The latter gave him his address,
or rather the address of his mistress, and made Jurgis
promise to look him up. "Maybe I could help you out of
a hole some day," he said, and added that he was sorry to
have him go. Jurgis rode in the patrol wagon back to
Justice Callahan's court for trial.

One of the first things he made out as he entered the
room was Teta Elzbieta and little Kotrina, looking pale
and frightened, seated far in the rear. His heart began
to pound, but he did not dare to try to signal to them,
and neither did Elzbieta. He took his seat in the prisoners'
pen and sat gazing at them in helpless agony. He saw
that Ona was not with them, and was full of foreboding
as to what that might mean. He spent half an hour
brooding over this -- and then suddenly he straightened
up and the blood rushed into his face. A man had come
in -- Jurgis could not see his features for the bandages
that swathed him, but he knew the burly figure. It was
Connor! A trembling seized him, and his limbs bent as
if for a spring. Then suddenly he felt a hand on his
collar, and heard a voice behind him: "Sit down, you son
of a--!"

He subsided, but he never took his eyes off his enemy.
The fellow was still alive, which was a disappointment, in
one way; and yet it was pleasant to see him, all in peni~
tential plasters. He and the company lawyer, who was
with him, came and took seats within the judge's railing;
and a minute later the clerk called Jurgis's name, and the
policeman jerked him to his feet and led him before the
bar, gripping him tightly by the arm, lest he should spring
upon the boss.

Jurgis listened while the man entered the witness chair,
took the oath, and told his story. The wife of the prisoner
had been employed in a department near him, and had
been discharged for impudence to him. Half an hour
later he had been violently attacked, knocked down, and
almost choked to death. He had brought witnesses --

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