Nevertheless, he still struggled to reach Clarence, appealing to the others: "Are you fools to stand there and let him triumph! Don't you see the cowardly Yankee trick he's played upon us ?" "He has not," said Mrs.Brant haughtily.

"I have no reason to love him or his friends; but I know he does not lie." "Gentlemen!--gentlemen!" implored Colonel Starbottle with beaming and unctuous persuasion, "may I--er--remark--that all this is far from the question?
Are we to be alarmed because an unknown rabble, no matter whence they come, demand entrance here in the name of the Law?
I am not aware of any law of the State of California that we are infringing.

By all means admit them." The gate was thrown open.

A single thick-set man, apparently unarmed and dressed like an ordinary traveler, followed by half a dozen other equally unpretentious-looking men, entered.

The leader turned to the balcony.
"I am the Chief of Police of San Francisco.