“God have mercy on me!”
CHAPTER II—THROUGH PRISON BARS
AN IMMENSE crowd had gathered at the hotel awaiting John’s arrival. The news of his arrest had stirred the town to feverish excitement.
Without turning to the right or left, or answering a look of recognition, he marched between two soldiers through the mass of men and boys in the office and climbed the stairs to the rooms of the United States Commissioner who was waiting to receive him.
The Commissioner handed him the warrant and he merely glanced at its title:=
```"THE UNITED STATES VERSUS JOHN GRAHAM
````CONSPIRACY AND MURDER"=
“I shall hold you without bail, Mr. Graham,” said the Commissioner.