As the trial and execution of J. C. P. Collins were the last acts in his
worthless career, so they were the last but one in the courtship of Mat
Bailey and Mamie Slocum. These comparatively young people were married
soon afterward. They were married and did not live happily ever after;
but they certainly enjoyed greater happiness than that which fell to the
lot of their friends, John Keeler and Dr. Mason only excepted.
During a long life John Keeler reaped the reward of sterling integrity.
To the end of his days he remained a poor man. But no one in all Nevada
County was more highly respected. Not that he was much interested in
what other people thought of him, as he strove simply to win the respect
of his own exacting conscience.
Dr. Mason, having at last had the satisfaction of seeing one murderer
brought to justice, felt that he might with dignity retire from the gold
fields, where good Anglo-Saxon ideas of law and order were beginning to
find acceptance. So he moved his family into the plains at the foot of
the Sierras, where in the town of Lincoln, Placer County, they enjoyed a
more genial and happy existence.
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