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was arrested under orders direct from Washington.  While I was under arrest and a prisoner in the hands of these men I was most vilely insulted and every abuse possible heaped upon me by the Agent and his clerk.  The other employees acted like gentlemen.  The chief of the agency police who had me [[strikethrough]] under [[/strikethrough]] in charge for several hours did not speak an insulting word to me.  I bore the insults of the Agent for some time, but at last they got beyond endurance, and I said to him that no gentleman, no, no one but a coward