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 so the sooner you git cool and give us more information on the subject, the sooner you're likely to gather in your boy. Just you sit down please, ’till I settle these people, an’ I'll see what we can do for you.”

The Frenchman sank dejectedly into a chair and the officer turned to his erstwhile prisoners.

“Now it’s up to you to see that this sort of thing—” he began briskly, but his eye was caught by the woebegone beauty of Patty’s face and his tone became gentler: “I must say, madam, we are sorry to have brought you here for nothing, and as it has been proved that you are not concerned in this business, you are free to go.” A grim smile lighted his face as he added “ and take the little boy and the bull dog with you. They are now minutely described in the police records, so you need have no fear of ever losing them again in New York.” Rh