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both whispered to the driver to cut loose with the whip. "Run him down!" Tommy insisted. "Jump the rig over him!" Sam advised. The doctor, however, stretched forth a detaining hand and the driver held in the horses. "That's right!" Frank exclaimed. "You mustn't get into any quarrel with the officers," Dr. Pelton suggested. "We can soon settle this matter." "Je-rusalem!" exclaimed Tommy. "Here we've been hanging around an old blacksmith shop all day, and skulking through the streets, and not getting half enough to eat, only to get pinched at the last minute! If I had my way, I'd bump that officer on the coco and make for the landing. We can't stay in this blooming little burg all the rest of our natural lives. Will will be anxious." "Now don't get excited!" laughed Frank. "We'll get out in, a few minutes, all right." "If it was so easy to get out in a few minutes," argued Tommy, "why didn't you get out hours ago?" Frank only laughed as the impatient question and sprang out of the carriage. The doctor alighted, too, and they both stood for a moment in close consultation with the officer. Jamison, who was now very drunk, stood weaving about in the street, demanding that all the boys, and the doctor, and the driver of the carriage, be thrown into jail on a charge of piracy. "Don't you think," Frank suggested to the officer, "that this man is too drunk to be out on the street?" "Why, of course he is," replied the officer beckoning to an associate who stood watching the group from the next corner. When the associate came up, Jamison was ordered under arrest, and was taken away with many threats and exclamations of rage. "I don't like this man Jamison any better than you do," the officer said, speaking to Frank and Dr. Pelton, "but the case did look rather bad for the boys, and I had to do something." "He collected three hundred dollars of me, for a trip to and from Cordova," Frank explained, "and then tried to maroon us on one of the Barren islands. There's a member of his crew back here in the blacksmith shop who will tell you the same story." "So you paid him three hundred dollars, did you?" asked the officer. "Yes, sir," answered the boy. "And you have proof that he tried to maroon you?" "Yes, sir!" "And you took the boat only to enforce the contract you had made?" "That's the idea!" replied Frank. "Then I'm not going to bother with the case at all!" replied the officer.
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