[Vynne, Harold Richard] [from old catalog] · Chicago, Thomson and Zimmerman · leaf 120
a swallow-tail coat. Be that asit may, he was backed into a corner and grufflyordered to apologize. ^Apologize for what? he asked. The leaderof the tough gang, who was manifestly drunk,peremptorily ordered the victim to ceasemonkeying and apologize; if he did not knowwhat to apologize for he could… … THE MASQUERADERS DREAM. 119 disfigurement for three months. He desired tocall next day on the charming young lady towhom he was engaged and so he wisely apolo-gized, and the menacing horde of roughs,who were preparing to tear him limb fromlimb, at once retired, in the best of humor, andlet him…
