But enough--the municipal wiseacres having put their heads together and evolved the brilliant plan of committing the prophet as a disturber of the peace, immediately set about its execution, which developed in the sequence into a bird of altogether another color.

For a more perilous and desperate device to preserve Garrison's life could not well have been hit upon.

How was he ever to be got out of the building and through that sea of ferocious faces surging and foaming around it.
First then by disguising his identity by sundry changes in his apparel.
He obtained a pair of trousers from one kindly soul, another gave him a coat, a third lent him a stock, a fourth furnished him a cap.

A hack was summoned and stationed at the south door, a posse of constables drew up and made an open way from the door to it.

Another hack was placed in readiness at the north door.