The robbery and assault, however, still remained a mystery to all but a chosen few.

It was evident that robbery had not been the object.

Robbery, theft, patrimonial damage, and injury to person and property were private trespasses, and not punished by the State.

Robbery is seldom a profession.

And how forcibly are we impressed, in surveying the varied phases of the French Revolution, that nothing but justice and right should guide men in their reforms; that robbery and injustice in the name of liberty and progress are still robbery and injustice, to be visited with righteous retribution; and that those rulers and legislators who cannot make passions and interests subservient to reason, are not fit for the work assigned to them.

"The robbery of women, who also among these savages are regarded as a man's most valuable property, is both the grossest and the most common theft; for it is the usual way of getting a wife.

'It was plain that an audacious robbery had been committedperhaps a murder.

I shall be glad to serve you, sir, in the name of justice; and to confound those with whom robbery of the orphan is an occupation, sir, a daily occupation.

Robbery was a fundamental article in the creed of this hoary veteran, and she listened to my objections with the same unaffected astonishment and horror that an old woman of other habits would listen to one who objected to the agonies and dissolution of the Creator of the world, or to the garment of imputed righteousness prepared to envelope the souls of the elect.

But to startle The Corner, where gold strikes were events of every twenty-four hours, just nowwhere robberies were common gossip, and where the killings now averaged nearly three a dayto startle The Corner was like trying to startle the theatrical world with a sensational play.

Robbery was the only mechanical art which was worth pursuing, and the only exercises followed were assault and battery.

'It was plain that an audacious robbery had been committedperhaps a murder.

He says that these robberies are not the work of human hands.

"One thing," said Kansas Casey, looking up from what he had founda handful of silver dollars, a pocket knife, and a silver watch, "robbery wasn't the motive.