RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



Gilroy withdrew with me into a corner and waited 

 for the storm to subside. The most jaded appetite 

 in the gilded rounds of New York was whetted by 

 the novel scene. It was three o'clock in the morning 

 when guests said good-night to the host, and then a 

 new problem had to be solved. A bitter snowstorm 

 had raged during the hours of festivity, and the 

 streets were almost impassable. Some of the guests 

 were forced to seek shelter in nearby hotels. It was 

 not long after this that William H. Clark was de- 

 cided a bankrupt, and the terrible reversal of form 

 broke his heart and sent him to an early grave. Col- 

 onel Wm. L. Brown was with us up to December, 

 1906, but the sensational dinner in which he played a 

 prominent part was seldom mentioned by him. 



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