indignantly. "It would be a _pretty_ idea if I was first to be
robbed of my satchel and then put in prison for it overnight! A
great kind of law _that_ would be! Why, I never heard of such a
thing! I think it's a perfect shame! I want to know if that's the
way you do with poor things that you don't know about?"

"That's about the size of it," said the captain, permitting himself
a smile, in which the officer joined.

"Well, it's a shame!" cried the girl, now carried far beyond her
personal interest in the matter.

The captain laughed outright. "It _is_ pretty rough. But what
you going to do?"

"Do? Why, I'd----" But here she stopped for want of science, and
added from emotion, "I'd do _any_thing before I'd do that."

"Well," said the captain, "then I understand you'll come round to
the police court and give your testimony in the morning?"

"Yes," said the girl, with a vague, compassionate glance at Lemuel,
who had stood there dumb throughout the colloquy.

"If you don't, I shall have to send for you," said the captain.

"Oh, I'll _come_," replied the girl, in a sort of disgust, and
her eyes still dwelt upon Lemuel.

"That's all," returned the captain, and the girl, accepting her