"Newton Edwards, I want you!"

With an exclamation of pain, the young man dropped his fishing-pole and
the bucket of fish he was carrying, while a chill ran through his frame,
and he shivered like an aspen in the grasp of the determined detective.

The others had now come forward, and as soon as he could recover from
his astonishment, the old farmer cried out:

"What does this mean?"

"It means," said Robert coolly, "that we have arrested your nephew for
burglary, and that he must go with us."

[Illustration: "Newton Edwards, I want you!"]

The moon just then came peeping from behind a cloud, and fell upon the
haggard face and wild eyes of the hapless prisoner, who until then had
not uttered a word.

"It is all a mistake, Uncle Ben," faltered he; "but there is no use of
making a denial here; if the blow has fallen, I must meet it like a
man."

The old man, with tears in his honest old eyes, gazed for a moment at
his miserable relative, and then, putting his sturdy old arms around
him, he turned to the officers:

"Gentlemen, I suppose it is your duty. I have no fault to find. If the