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Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

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DANGER IN THE DARK. 273<br />

" Did <strong>the</strong>y make no attempt to suppress <strong>the</strong> riotous<br />

proceed<strong>in</strong>gs 1"<br />

" They were <strong>the</strong>mselves <strong>the</strong> rioters, madam."<br />

"What, <strong>the</strong> police guilty of a riot 1"<br />

" Yes, and most outrageous, <strong>in</strong>human and disgraceful<br />

conduct."<br />

"Can it be possible 1 'T is <strong>in</strong>deed a sad th<strong>in</strong>g,<br />

when <strong>the</strong> men whose duty it is to preserve <strong>the</strong> peace<br />

should be <strong>the</strong> readiest to violate it."<br />

" Order-lov<strong>in</strong>g and law-abid<strong>in</strong>g citizens no longer<br />

compose <strong>the</strong> C<strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>nati police."<br />

" The officers who control <strong>the</strong> police forces must be<br />

<strong>in</strong>competent, or else exceed<strong>in</strong>gly remiss."<br />

" They are both; yet quite competent to <strong>in</strong>stigate<br />

difficulty among citizens, and blow <strong>the</strong> slightest spark<br />

of dissension up to a destructive conflagration."<br />

"But how did this difficulty happen, and from<br />

what did it spr<strong>in</strong>g ~"<br />

"Why, this Papal Nuncio, who recently arrived <strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> city, and over whom <strong>the</strong> Romish clergy here are<br />

mak<strong>in</strong>g so much ado, it seems, has been <strong>the</strong> occasion<br />

of it."<br />

" Bed<strong>in</strong>i 1"<br />

"That's what <strong>the</strong>y call him, I believe, and a stupid,<br />

thick-sk<strong>in</strong>ned look<strong>in</strong>g fellow he is."<br />

"~ow did <strong>the</strong>y manage to get up a riot about himt"<br />

"There is <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> city a society called' Freemen,'<br />

as, perhaps, you are aware, composed chiefly of Germans-a<br />

very orderly, <strong>in</strong>telligent and respectable class<br />

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