Gee whizz! Look at me now! I missed John D.by a few minutes, but found myself gaping with the crowd at the scene of a murder in which he had figured heavily.

Since then I have helped to break open hotel doors, discovered a villain tied and gagged by other villains, stood on my head in Morris Siegelman's joint, started a riot in East Broadway, helped a detective to commit a larceny, cheeked a British lord, and scoffed at a Hungarian prince, to say nothing of the present racket.

So don't you go making plans for the night yet a while, McCulloch, because John D.will keep you busy without any call for you exercising your brain cells in that respect." The roundsman did not try to grasp the inner significance of this rigmarole.

He was unfeignedly glad to have escaped from an awkward predicament.
"Anyhow," he said briefly, "if it comes to the worst I can ring up my captain from the nearest station-house, and at least he will know where I am." "Don't be too sure of that, either.

Suppose you had 'phoned your captain before you went on board the barge, would he be any the wiser now?
Just to prove the exceeding wisdom of my remarks, do you know where you are at the present moment?
Because _I_ don't." The policeman stopped short, and gazed ahead with a new anxiety.