CHAPTER X.SO THEY HANGED LUIGI.
Dawson's Landing had a week of repose, after the election, and it needed it, for the frantic and variegated nightmare which had tormented it all through the preceding week had left it limp, haggard, and exhausted at the end.

It got the week of repose because Angelo had the legs, and was in too subdued a condition to want to go out and mingle with an irritated community that had come to distrust and detest him because there was such a lack of harmony between his morals, which were confessedly excellent, and his methods of illustrating them, which were distinctly damnable.

The new city officers were sworn in on the following Monday--at least all but Luigi.

There was a complication in his case.

His election was conceded, but he could not sit in the board of aldermen without his brother, and his brother could not sit there because he was not a member.