Belton stood still to await developments.

The clerk said to the policeman: "This high-toned nigger bought a meal of me and because I would not let him sit down and eat like white people he refused to pay me." The officers turned to Belton and said: "Pay that man what you owe him." Belton replied: "I owe him nothing.

He refuses to accommodate me, and I therefore owe him nothing." "Come along with me, sir.

Consider yourself under arrest." Wondering what kind of a country he had entered, Belton followed the officer and incredible as it may seem, was locked up in jail for the night.

The next morning he was arraigned before the mayor, whom the officer had evidently posted before the opening of court.