"I gave you fair warning, keep off.

I tell you I'll strike the first man, the first one, that touches me." Then the four who had been appointed to seize me jumped on me, and I only got one good blow in before they had me down in the gutter and were beating me on the face and head.

I put my hands across my face, and so did not get any hard blows directly in the face.

They slipped back in a moment, and when I was ready I scrambled up pretty wet and muddy, and with my face stinging where they had struck.

It had all been done so quickly, and there was such a large crowd coming from the theatre, that, of course, no one saw it.