The stuff was worth $250.

That's a felony, you know." Kitty saw Felix sway for an instant, and was about to put out a protecting hand when he turned again to the lieutenant.
"Officer, I do not ask you to break your rules, but I would consider it an especial favor if you would let me see this woman for a moment--even if you do not permit me to speak to her." "Well, you can't see her." The reply came with some positiveness and a slight touch of irony.

He had made up his mind now that if the speaker had a pull, he would meet it by keeping strictly to the regulations.
"Why not ?" "Because she ain't here.

She's in the Tombs by this time, unless somebody went her bail up at court.

They had her in the patrol-wagon as I come on duty." "The Tombs?
That is the city prison, is it not ?" Felix asked, hardly conscious of his own question, absorbed only in one thought--Lady Barbara's degradation.
"That's what it is," answered the lieutenant with a contemptuous glance at Felix, followed by a curl of the lip.