Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

76 DANGER IN THE DARK.
" No, the fellows that caught me were Catholic
watchmen-and knew not who they had hold of, till
they had torn my coat off me."
" Prodigious! why did they handle you so
roughly 1"
"I struggled to get away-thinking that it was the
blood-thirsty Carleton who had pursued and overtaken
me. Had it not been for the length of my coat-tail,'
which streamed out so far behind, they, perhaps, would
not have got their clutches upon me; but two robust
Irishmen, laying hold of my outspread wings- one
seizing my right, and the other my left skirt-s-dreaming
not that it was a consecrated garment, worn by a
priest, and suddenly checking me up, while I struggled
like a buffalo in a snare to get free, they split my
coat clear to the collar; and what was worse, my wig
flew off in the scuffie-and you can, perhaps, imagine
what a ludicrous figure I cut!"
,,Yes, in my mind'8 e.ye,I see it all; and a desperate
outrage it was; I marvel not, that your righteous
soul is vexed."
" The whole matter being explained, I was soon set
at liberty; the Catholic watchmen, who treated me so
rudely, humbly begged my pardon and sneaked away;
but that reprobate Carleton, laughed and jeered, as
though it were rare sport-and such, no doubt, he
considered it-a thousand curses upon his soul!"
" In hell he'll roast for it !"
"That's one comfort."
"But to waive this unpleasant subject, Dr. Dupin,