CHAPTER XXII
Samuel now had his evidence; and he went straight back to Dr. Vince. “Doctor,” he said, “I am able to tell you that I know. I have heard it fromone of the men who got the money.”
“Who is he?” asked the doctor.
“I could not tell you that,” said the boy—“it would not be fair. But you know that I am telling the truth. And this man told me with his own lips that Mr. Hickman paid twenty thousand dollars to Slattery, the Democratic boss, to be paid to ten of the supervisors to vote against the other company’s water bill.”
There was a long pause; the doctor sat staring in front of him. “What do you want me to do?” he asked faintly.
“I don’t know,” said Samuel. “Is it for me to tell you what is right?”
And again there was a pause.
“My boy,” said the doctor, “this is a terrible
