Prescott understands your state of mind, however.

He knows you're so upset, your mind so unhinged by the family trouble that you're doing and saying things that you'll be ashamed of by daylight." "I suppose, next, you'll be inviting this reported fellow to go on the boat with us when it comes," sneered Bert Dodge.
"That would be for the chief to say.

Reporters are, usually, allowed to go with the police.

Come, come, Dodge," urged Hemingway, laying a kindly hand on the young man's shoulder, "calm down and understand that Prescott is not offering to make any trouble, and that he has been very patient with a young fellow who finds himself in a heap of trouble." "I can cut this short," offered Dick quietly.

"I don't believe it would be worth my while, Mr.Hemingway, to ask the chief's permission to go on the boat with you.