Finally he chuckled.

"Wiggin didn't know much more'n half the stuff he lost," he said.

"There's nine watches here instead of seven and a lot more other things than he's got down here on his list.

Here he is now, I guess." Mr.Wiggin was a bewhiskered, nervous-mannered little man and he hurried into the Chief's office as though he had run all the way from his house or store.
"Well, well, Chief!" he exclaimed breathlessly.

"So you've found it, eh?
I want to know! I want to know! Got the thieves too, eh ?" He scowled darkly at Clint and Amy, and Amy was heard to assert under his breath that he hoped Mr.Wiggin would choke.