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I leaned toward her and whispered mysteriously: "The truth is, I belong to a secret society, and I was cutting the cards to see whether or not I should blow up the post-office to-night or the police-station. You mustn't tell anybody." "Oh!" She started back from the table. "You do not look it," she added suddenly. "I know it; appearances are so deceptive," said I sadly.
I would ask you to be so good as to accompany us to the nearest police-station." "Which is not far off," I replied. "There is one up the next street on our right." We walked there, all four of us, without saying another word. "What have I been doing?" I wondered. Then we climbed upstairs.
More than twice on his way home in the early morning, he all but turned to go back to the police-station, but it was, as usual, only all but, and he kept walking on. Already, ere James's flight was discovered, morning saw Mr.
"You cowards!" said Ann Veronica, "put her down!" and tore herself from a detaining hand and battered with her fists upon the big red ear and blue shoulder of the policeman who held the little old lady. So Ann Veronica also was arrested. And then came the vile experience of being forced and borne along the street to the police-station.
At the police-station he learnt that Inspector Marley was still on the premises. Marley came forward gravely. He had a few questions to ask, but nothing to tell. "And now perhaps you can give me some information?" David said, "You are advertising in to-night's Argus a gun-metal cigar-case set with diamonds." "Ah," Marley said, eagerly, "can you tell us anything about it?"
"I must go to the police-station," he said at length, when the violence of the paroxysm had passed and left Julian in the still exhaustion of despair. "You, I think, had better stay here. Is there any danger of her coming to seek you?" Julian made a motion with his hand, otherwise lay still, his pale face turned upwards. "I shall be back very quickly," Waymark added, taking his hat.
Stop, or I shoot you dead! The tables were turned, and he had me at his mercy as completely as he had been at mine. I made up my mind to being marched to the nearest police-station. But nothing of the kind. I had misjudged my man as utterly as you misjudged him a few months later aboard the Lady Jermyn.
As there were two good men on duty that night, I did not see why I should remain at my desk, even though there was an unusual stir created in our small town by the grand ball given at The Evergreens. But just as I was preparing to start for home, an imperative ring called me to the telephone, and I heard: "Halloo! Is this the police-station?" "It is."
The rate is two francs an hour, or four francs in all. We offer you five francs, and this includes a franc pourboire. If this settlement does not suit you we will get into your cab and you will drive us to the nearest police-station where the argument can be continued." The man's jaw dropped. He was obviously outclassed. These foreigners knew the law as well as he did.
The constable, who was also coroner of our township, had gone to a creek, three miles away, to hold an inquest, and there was nobody to arrest the man. The nearest police-station was at Hackingford, six miles away, on the railroad. I held a consultation with the station-master, and the gentleman who kept the grocery-store opposite.
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