The Closed Shop

The Closed ShopNothing Would Induce Me to tell the name of the happy country in which the incidents occurred that I am constrained to relate; but I see no harm in admitting that it is a free and independent state on the continent of America. This is vague enough in all conscience and can give rise to no diplomatic incident.Now the president of this free and independent state had an eye to a pretty woman and there came to his capital (a wide and sunny town with a plaza, a cathedral that was not w...