VASQUEZ, THE BANDIT.
Harkaway was merely taken to the station-house and kept there half an hour.
This was all the indignity he was subjected to.
After this he was discharged, as no one came to make any complaint against him.
All Lord Maltravers wanted was the scene in the theatre, the scandal of which could be made into a very pretty story for the newspapers.
Harkaway's escapade, as it would be called, could be sent to Miss Vanhoosen, and her mind be poisoned by reading how Jack was caught in a box at the theatre with another man's wife.
This was part of his deep-laid plot.
Jack returned to the Palace Hotel, where Mr. Mole and Harvey were awaiting him.
They could not help laughing when they heard how Maltravers had succeeded in tricking him, after all.
"Never mind; there will be no harm done," said the professor. "You can write to Miss Vanhoosen, and your word will go further than anything he can say."