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Also , with every bumper Mr. Gwynn became more rigid , and more rigid still , as though instead of wine he quaffed libations of starch . Of those who experienced Mr. Gwynn 's kingly hospitality that night there departed none who failed to carry with him a multiplied respect for his host -- a respect which with the President and General Attorney of the Anaconda fair mounted to veneration . Altogether , from the standpoint of everyone except the alarmed Senator Coot , the affair was not a dinner , but a victory . It was ten o'clock the morning after , and Richard had just reached the street . From across the way came a gentleman who apparently had been waiting for him to appear . It was none other than Mr. Sands , that warlike printer whom Richard rescued from the Africans and set to work . Richard had not had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Sands since bestowing those benefits upon him .