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Then, as briefly as I could, I explained the enormity of his offenses

To take a chair froross insult; to

receive a slap in the face and not to resent it, was another insult; to

tear up an opponent's visiting-card, still another; to take out a

revolver in Barscheit, unless you were an officer or had a permit, was

worse than an insult; it was a cri i either an anarchist or a socialist-red,

corand duke The fact

that he was ignorant of the laws, or that he, was an alien, would remit

not one particle of his punishment and fine; and weeks would pass ere

the ed between the United States and Barscheit

"Good Lord!" he gasped; "why didn't you tell me?"

"Why didn't you tell me that you carried a cannon in your pocket? Take

Ellis' papers, otherwise you stand pat for a heap of trouble, and I

can't help you Go straight to Dresden, telegraph e"

"But I cay in the form of prison walls," said Ellis quietly

"Don't be foolish, Mr Scharfenstein; it is not a e, but of his coht out I

have lived here for three years, and have seen ht for