11/13 They let him exclaim as much as he liked, till his throat was sore if he pleased. He had constituted himself the defender of a cause lost in advance. He was heard but not listened to, and he did not carry off a single admirer from the president of the Gun Club, who did not even take the trouble to refute his rival's arguments. He therefore proposed in the _Richmond Inquirer_ a series of bets conceived in these terms and in an increasing proportion. The funds necessary for the Gun Club's enterprise would not be forthcoming, 1,000 dols. |