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The Von Toodleburgs

CHAPTER XXVIII
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He will not give me ze satisfaction.

I shall show you as this grand rascal tells not one word of ze truth." "I told you, my dear," said Chapman, "that Mr.Gusher was a gentleman, and would explain it all to your satisfaction." Mrs.Chapman expressed herself highly gratified at what she had heard.
But in order to put the matter beyond question, and to prove to her entire satisfaction that he was not only an innocent, but a much injured gentleman, Gusher returned on the following day armed with a large number of letters, some of them sealed with great seals, the writers setting forth that they had known the young gentleman from his birth up, that he was of irreproachable character, and his parents very distinguished people.
Of course the Chapmans were entirely satisfied.

Indeed Mr.Gusher so turned his guns on Mr.Romer as to make his position extremely uncomfortable.

Both were guests at the old City Hotel, where Gusher was a great favorite with all the young ladies, and to whom he related his difficulty with Romer.

In short, he so enlisted their sympathies in his behalf that they were ready to join him in ejecting Romer from the house as a slanderer.


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