"But where are we going?" wailed Belle, as the man threw the towline
to Ed.
"Not far," answered the man. "I just have to take you in, and then
you have to do the rest."
"What's the rest?" inquired Walter.
"Oh, pay a fine," said the man carelessly.
"How much?" inquired Ed.
"From five to twenty-five; as the judge sees fit. There, are you
fast?"
"Guess so," growled Jack, to whom the arrest seemed like a case of
"Captain Kidding."
"And we can't go to Laurel?" Hazel inquired with a sigh.
"Shame," commented Walter under his breath, "but Jack knows the best
thing to do with the law is to jolly it."
"Law nothing," muttered Ed, as he took the steering wheel, Jack
being busy with the towing line.
"Never mind," Cora suggested. "It will give us a new experience. I
had the fool-hardiness to wish for some real excitement this very
afternoon."
"But to be arrested!" gasped Bess with a frightened look.
"A distinctly new sensation," said Hazel with an attempt to laugh.
"Just think of going before a real, live judge!"
But evidently the other girls did not want to think of it. They
would rather have thought of anything else just then.
"Which way are you going?" Jack asked the man in the official boat.
"I thought your judge lived on the East side?"
"He does, but we may take some other fellows in yet to-night. This
is only one catch," and the inspector laughed unpleasantly.
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