The Law-Breakers and Other Stories

· 1940

The Law-Breakers Against His Judgment St. George and the Dragon The Romance of a Soul An Exchange of Courtesies Across the Way A Surrender George Colfax was in an outraged frame of mind, and properly so. Politically speaking, George was what might be called, for lack of a better term, a passive reformer. That is, he read religiously the New York _Nation_, was totally opposed to the spoils system of party rewards, and was ostensibly as right-minded a citizen as one would expect to find in a Sabbath day’s journey. He subscribed one dollar a year to the civil-service reform journal, and invariably voted on Election Day for the best men, cutting out in advance the names of the candidates favore…

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