"That was a fresh cop.

Wanted to geezle me for a robber.

If Ned hadn't come across just as he did, there'd 'a' been a scrap.

Say, Ned," he added, turning to the patrol leader, "how did you get your stand-in with the soldiers?
Wasn't that a colonel who talked the bull cop out of pinching both of us ?" "That was Colonel Wingate," was the reply.

"I can't tell you anything more about the matter just now.