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`` There ! '' she added , pointing at monstrous black headlines on the page as I weakly took it from her . And then I saw . There before them , divining now the enormity of what had come to pass , I controlled myself to master the following screed : RED GAP 'S DISTINGUISHED VISITOR Colonel Marmaduke Ruggles of London and Paris , late of the British army , bon-vivant and man of the world , is in our midst for an indefinite stay , being at present the honoured house guest of Senator and Mrs. James Knox Floud , who returned from foreign parts on the 5:16 flyer yesterday afternoon . Colonel Ruggles has long been intimately associated with the family of his lordship the Earl of Brinstead , and especially with his lordship 's brother , the Honourable George Augustus Vane-Basingwell , with whom he has recently been sojourning in la belle France . In a brief interview which the Colonel genially accorded ye scribe , he expressed himself as delighted with our thriving little city . `` It 's somewhat a town -- if I 've caught your American slang , '' he said with a merry twinkle in his eyes .