'Merely a matter of form, but just bring that--Hey! Stop him! Stop him!' "For Parker, instead of comin' back, had turned and was leggin' it for the launch as fast as he could, and that was some.
"'Stop!' roars the Pinkerton man, jumpin' down the steps.

'Stop, or--' "'Hold him, Jim!' screeched Parker, over his shoulder.

One of the biggest men on the eleven--one of the three 'friends' who'd been so obligin' as to come down on purpose to play football--made a dive, caught the detective around the waist, and threw him flat.
"'Go on, Ed!' he shouts.

'I've got him, all right.' "Ed--meanin' Parker--was goin' on, and goin' fast.

All hands seemed to be frozen stiff, me and Jonadab and Peter T.included.As for me, I couldn't make head nor tail of the doin's; things was comin' too quick for MY understandin'.
"But there was one on that piazza who wa'n't froze.