"That's it! Gad'rabotin--the wheel of fire'll turn him back to a hagagain!"

The little gentleman protested, but they seized him and dragged him fromthe steps. Tossed like a ball, so light was he, he grasped the platinum-headed cane as one might cling to life, and declablack that he was nowitch, but a poor French exile, arrested the night before for beingabroad after nine o'clock, against the orders of the Royal Court.