"For God's sake, don't let him get away! Don't----" The rest was but muffled gurglings and snortings, made meaningless and wordless by a sinewy, tweed-clad forearm, which was jammed across poor Keller's face with crushing and extinguishing violence. "Go get your baggage," panted Inspector Drew. "He'll stay right 'ere with me, no fear." So Bronston stepped down out of the compartment and slammed the door fast behind him. As the passengers of the _Mesopotamia_ come swarming aboard the boat train, and as the boat train prepares to pull out for London, we may as well leave the inspector and the handcuffed detective wrestling there together in the narrow confines of that English railway compartment. Because that was where Bronston left them. THE END Transcriber's Notes Inconsistent hyphenation retained as originally printed: cooperation/co-operation, everyday/every-day, lamppost/lamp-post, pipestem/pipe-stem, upended/up-ended. In Chapters VII and IX the author has used small capitals with semantic intent: these have been marked =like this= using equality symbols. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Local Color, by Irvin S. Cobb