CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH.

Not so Ascyltos, who was afraid of the law, and demurred, "Who knows us

here? Who will place any credence in anything we say? It seems to me

that it would be better to buy, ours though it is, and we know it, and

recover the treasure at small cost, rather than to engage in a doubtful

lawsuit."

Of what avail are any laws, where money rules alone,

Where Poverty can never win its cases?

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