"I guess you'll admit, Brainard, that I've got you for keeps this time." "Then suppose we be starting for Headquarters." Larry responded.
Hunt moved to Larry's side.

"I'll just trail along after you, Larry.
Anyhow, this doesn't seem to be any place for me." A few minutes afterwards Larry was in a car beside Gavegan, speeding away from Cedar Crest toward the city.

Larry's thoughts were the gloomiest he had entertained since he had come out of Sing Sing months before with his great dream.

All that he had counted on had gone wrong.
He was in the hands of the police, and he knew how hard the police would be.

He had incurred the hostility of Miss Sherwood and had lost what had seemed a substantial opportunity to start his career as an honest man.
The only item of his great plan in which he did not seem to have failed completely was Maggie.