“He'll have justice!” repeated the captain with a chuckle. “Say! he aought to put that in the Joe Miller Joke-book.” Then to the red-faced man, who still leaned against the desk, the image of autocracy sure of itself: “What is it to be, Mr. Kennedy?” “Why,” quoth the red-faced one, “you must lock this boy up. Yes, an' the girl, too; she had better go in for the night. I'll take a look into th' business, an' let the judge know in the mornin'.” “I don't think, captain,” interposed the officer who brought us from the docks, “there's any use locking up these people. It was nothin' but a cheap muss on the pier.” “Say! I don't stand that!” broke in Sheeny Joe. “This party smashed me with a bar of iron. The girl was in the play; an' I say they're both to go in.” “You 'say,'” mocked the captain, in high scorn. “An' who are you? Who is this fellow?” he demanded, looking about him. “He's one of my people,” said the red-faced man, still coolly by the desk. “No more out of you!” snarled the captain to the kindly officer, as the latter again tried to speak; “you get back to your beat!” “An' say!” cried the red-faced man, slowly rousing from his position by the desk; “before you go, let me give you a word. You're a sight too gabby; you had better think more and say less, or you won't last long enough as a copper to wear out that new uniform. An' if anybody asks, tell him it was Big Kennedy that told you.” They led me to a cell, while poor Apple Cheek, almost fainting, was carried to another. As I was being taken away, Anne came rushing in. Bad news is a creature of wings, and Anne had been told my adventures by a small urchin who ran himself nearly to death in defeating two fellow urchins for the privilege before I had reached the station. Anne did not observe me as she came in, for I stood somewhat to the rear, with several turnkeys and officers between. I could see the white face of her, and how the lamps of a great alarm were lighted in her eyes. Her voice was so low with terror I could not hear her words. Evidently she was pleading, girl-fashion, for my liberty. The tones of the captain, however, rose clear and high. “That'll do ye now,” said he in a manner of lordly insolence, looking up from the desk to which he had returned. “If we put a prisoner on the pavement every time a good-looking girl rushed in with a yarn about bein' his sister, we wouldn't need no cells at all. This boy stays till the judge takes a look at him in the mornin'. Meanwhile, you had better get back to your window, or all the men will have left the street.” At this, a mighty anger flamed up in my heart. I tore away from the officer who had me by the shoulders, and, save that three others as practiced in the sleight of it as football players instantly seized me, I should have gone straight at the captain's neck like a bulldog. “I'll have his life!” I foamed.