Chapter 18—The Pace of the Tortoise
Received of Mr. Hermann Titbury, of Chicago, the sum of three hundred dollars in payment of the fine to which he was sentenced on the 14th of May, instant, for infringement of the law as to alcoholic drinks.
Calais, Maine, 19th of May, 1897.
Walter Hoek,
Registrar.
And so Hermann Titbury had had to give in, not without a long resistance that lasted to the 19th of May. Then, the amount being paid, the identity of the third player duly established, the proof given that it was Mr. and Mrs. Titbury who were travelling under the name of Mr. and Mrs. Field, Judge R. T. Ordak, after three days in prison, had remitted the rest of the sentence. It was time.
That very day, the 19th, at eight o’clock in the morning, Tornbrock had made the sixth throw of the d
