"It isn't what he can say," exclaimed Jack; "it's what the papers will print."
"Hang the papers!" growled Harvey.
"Of course," continued Jack, "Maltravers will send the papers to Lena, and you all know what women think of anything in print."
"It's a dirty, mean trick of Maltravers," said Harvey.
"So it is; but what if he carries out the rest of his programme, as the girl in the box described it, and sends our friend Jack to the Brazils?"
"I should look well as a galley slave," remarked Jack, laughing.
"It is no laughing matter," continued Mr. Mole.
"We won't leave him," said Harvey. "He shan't go out alone."
This being settled, they retired to rest.
The morning papers fully realized Jack's expectations, for they contained full and sensational accounts of the disturbance at the California Theatre.