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Well, that may be all right, kids, but I've been instructed to look out for suspicious characters this morning, and I guess you'd both better step around to the station with me." He smiled. "I don't suppose the Chief'll keep you very long, but he might like to ask you some questions. See?" The boys nodded not over-enthusiastically and accompanied the officer.
"Chief'll be yonder," said Haney in Joe's ear. "Come along." They shouldered their way along the sidewalk. The passers-by were of a type construction men. Somebody here had taken part in the building of every skyscraper and bridge and dam put up in Joe's lifetime. They could have been kept away from the Space Platform job only by a flat refusal by security to let them be hired.
Enthusiasm for his friend and interest in Ralph's ambition to get an education had carried him beyond the limit of his usual brief remarks. Such a long speech was a surprise to himself as well as to his auditors. They listened attentively, and not a few among them caught the spirit of the plan. "D'you think the Chief'll let us do it?" asked one.
"The chief had better handle this," he said, and went to the telephone. "Where's this chap to go?" asked one of the policemen. "We're full up," said the sergeant. "Put him in with Charlie Swift. The chief'll be over in a few minutes." So once more Samuel was led into a cell, and heard the door clang upon him.
It was more than that, it was a source of the most rosy-hued hopes and dreams in which he had indulged himself for many a long day. Almost the last thing Tom said to him before dropping off to sleep was: "The Chief'll persuade 'em to do it, I know he will. He can do anything. He's great!"
"If Cap'n Dick rips and tears and pulls the grass up by the roots, the chief'll only say, 'Wah! If he sits up and cusses till he's black in the face, the chief'll say, 'Ugh! And that's just about all a man hankers for when his sore's a-running in the night season, and all Thy waters have gone over his head. Selah!"
"There is no one here to do it just now," the man answered. "Better make yourself comfortable for a bit." "You detain me here, then," Mr. Sabin said, "without even a sight of your warrant or any intimation as to the charge against me?" "Oh, the chief'll fix all that," the man answered. "Don't you worry." Mr. Sabin smiled.
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