"Put him in the car." said the Chief. "And look here, young
fellow. I'll search you later; look here. Here is something for
you to chew on for a while. Hold the flash, Dennis. Look here,
you! See that piece of cloth? It just fits the torn place in
your collar. She nearly got you, didn't she, before you managed
to beat her brains out?"

Elinor heard a subdued struggle as the police loaded the prisoner
into the car. She rushed into the house to tell Aunt Ann that
the man had been caught. Wugs with a couple of smaller scouts
came up. Wugs followed his sister into the house, and the two
other boys sat down on the steps where they would not miss
anything going on.

Philip and Benjamin Potter, known to their intimate friends as
Pork and Beans Potter, were twins painfully alike in thought,
word and deed as well as size and looks. They sat side by side.
Each boy leaned his right elbow on his right knee and supported
his chin on his hand.

"Funny 'bout that coat," said Beans. "Did you see it?"

"Yes," said Porky. "I was lookin' all the time. You mean about
there bein' two just alike. Kind o'queer, loud pattern. And
funny buttons. You know that man in the road was right under the
big light, so we seen it plain, didn't we?"

"Sure!" said Beany. He shifted elbows, and in a minute Porky did
the same. "But the man we passed in the road didn't look like
the murderer, did he? Kind of square built. Looked worse than