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The
advocates
of
an
early
trial
were
favoured
by
a
fortuitous
circumstance
.
The
judge
of
the
Supreme
Court
chanced
just
then
to
be
going
his
circuit
;
and
the
days
devoted
to
clearing
the
calendar
at
Fort
Inge
,
had
been
appointed
for
that
very
week
.
There
was
,
therefore
,
a
sort
of
necessity
,
that
the
case
of
Maurice
Gerald
,
as
of
the
other
suspected
murderers
,
should
be
tried
within
a
limited
time
.
As
no
one
objected
,
there
was
no
one
to
ask
for
a
postponement
;
and
it
stood
upon
the
docket
for
the
day
in
question
--
the
fifteenth
of
the
month
.
The
accused
might
require
the
services
of
a
legal
adviser
.
There
was
no
regular
practitioner
in
the
place
:
as
in
these
frontier
districts
the
gentlemen
of
the
long
robe
usually
travel
in
company
with
the
Court
;
and
the
Court
had
not
yet
arrived
.
For
all
that
,
a
lawyer
had
appeared
:
a
"
counsellor
"
of
distinction
;
who
had
come
all
the
way
from
San
Antonio
,
to
conduct
the
case
.
As
a
volunteer
he
had
presented
himself
!
It
may
have
been
generosity
on
the
part
of
this
gentleman
,
or
an
eye
to
Congress
,
though
it
was
said
that
gold
,
presented
by
fair
fingers
,
had
induced
him
to
make
the
journey
.
When
it
rains
,
it
rains
.
The
adage
is
true
in
Texas
as
regards
the
elements
;
and
on
this
occasion
it
was
true
of
the
lawyers
.
The
day
before
that
appointed
for
the
trial
of
the
mustanger
,
a
second
presented
himself
at
Fort
Inge
,
who
put
forward
his
claim
to
be
upon
the
side
of
the
prisoner
.
This
gentleman
had
made
a
still
longer
journey
than
he
of
San
Antonio
;
a
voyage
,
in
fact
:
since
he
had
crossed
the
great
Atlantic
,
starting
from
the
metropolis
of
the
Emerald
Isle
.
He
had
come
for
no
other
purpose
than
to
hold
communication
with
the
man
accused
of
having
committed
a
murder
!
It
is
true
,
the
errand
that
had
brought
him
did
not
anticipate
this
;
and
the
Dublin
solicitor
was
no
little
astonished
when
,
after
depositing
his
travelling
traps
under
the
roof
of
Mr
Oberdoffer
's
hostelry
,
and
making
inquiry
about
Maurice
Gerald
,
he
was
told
that
the
young
Irishman
was
shut
up
in
the
guard-house
.
