I tell you, my heart fell clean down into my boots." "Should think it would," muttered the "Kid," peering about the wheel-house with a shiver.

"Ugh!" "I dropped the lantern," resumed Tom, "and staggered back.

Just then a----" "Half dozen policemen entered the front door just as Patrick and the supposed Mike reached the bottom of the stairs," broke in Bill, taking up the thread of his story.

"Well, when the Irish coppers saw Pat with the monk hanging around his neck they thought the old Nick had him.

They started to run, but the old woman reached the lower floor in time to see both Mike and the monkey.