Now the public--that is to say, the reading public--cannot guess at a tithe of the difficulties to be encountered in making the policeman speak; he looks upon every question as though it were, with entrapping ideas, put to him by a sharp cross-examining counsel, and is reticent to a degree. He is a regular Quaker--he only speaks when the spirit moveth him; and the only effective spirit for moving him is Kinahan's LL, which seems to soothe the perturbed current of his thoughts, makes him cease to regard the administering hand as that of prosecutor, prisoner, or witness in an important case, and altogether it reduces him to one's own level, if he will allow the expression. Bobby sat one evening in my study--as my wife insists upon calling the little shabby room over the back kitchen--and for awhile he seemed such a Tartar that I regretted having caught him. I almost shrank beneath his hard stare, and began to wonder whether I had done anything that would necessitate the use of the "darbies" he was fidgeting about in his pocket, especially when his eyes were so intently fixed upon my wrists, which lay upon the table before me in rather an exposed state, from the fact of the tweed jacket I wore not being one of the "warranted shrunk." It was enough to make any one shudder and draw the sleeves lower down, and my performance of this act appeared to make my visitor so suspicious that I verily believe he would have interposed to prevent my exit any time during the course of his call. My friend partook of my hospitality, and then began to speak, when I opened a book and seized a pencil, but,-- "No, thanky, sir," he cried; "not if I knows it. The regular reporters is bad enough; only what can't be cured must be endoored. But none o' that, thanky. P'raps you'll put that book away." Of course I did so, and felt that I must imitate the special correspondent of the _Pall Mall Gazette_, and trust to my memory. "Now yer see, sir, I could say a deal; but then I says to myself--`It's my dooty to tell you as anything you now says may be used in evidence agen you at yer trial.' Wherefore, don't you see, I takes notice of the caution?" I'd give something to be able to transfer to paper the solemn wink he gave me, but that is impossible, and we both talked on indifferent subjects until my visitor had had another mix, when thoughtfully poking at the sugar, he said,--