I'm here with Mr.O'Day lookin' up a woman who was brought here this morning for stealin' some finery or whatever it was from one of these big stores--and we want to see her, if ye plaze." The lieutenant shook his head.

"Can't see no prisoner without the captain's orders." Kitty bridled, but she kept her temper.

"When will he be back ?" "Six o'clock.

He's gone to headquarters." "He'd let me see her if he was here," she retorted, with some asperity.
"No doubt--but I can't." All this time he had not changed his position--his arms on the desk, his fingers drumming idly.
Felix rested his hands on the rail fronting the desk.

"May I ask if you saw the woman ?" "No.