"No, not exactly; you can take it easy for a time, and you will have an examination soon."
"If I am not under arrest," Ingham replied, "I shall not stay here."
"Why not?" asked the station-keeper.
"Because I have no business here unless I am a prisoner," was Ingham's reply.
"We can lock you up in a cell, if we want to," said the station-keeper; "but we thought you would prefer to be comfortable up here."
"Then I am a prisoner?" again inquired Ingham, who seemed anxious to have his status satisfactorily explained.
"Yes, confound it; if you are determined to have it so, you are."
About five o'clock the sergeant of police came in, and asked Ingham his name.
"Ingham," was the reply.
"Jack Ingham?"