CHAPTER X. The Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins | ||
10. CHAPTER X.
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
"Pudd'nhead was right, at the start—we ought to have hired the official half of that human phillipene to resign; but it's too late, now; some of us have n't got anything left to hire him with."
"Yes, we have," said another citizen, "we've got this "—and he produced a halter.
Many shouted, "That's the ticket." But others said, " No-Count Angelo is innocent; we must n't hang him."
"Who said anything about hanging him? We are only going to hang the other one."
"Then that is all right—there is no objection to that."
So they hanged Luigi. And so ends the history of "Those Extraordinary Twins."
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