The officer pricked up his ears.
“Ha!” he exclaimed. “Then you have been arrested in Denver before? This is a second offense! I rather think you’ll not get off as easy as you did the first time.”
“Oh, yeou are enough to——”
“Ephraim!”
With that word Frank cut Gallup short.
In a short time they approached the police station.
“I have been here before,” said Merry, quietly. “This is the station to which I was taken when Leslie Lawrence made his false charge against me.”
Entering, he was taken before the desk of the sergeant, the bobbing man, the little man, the cock-eyed man, and the gallant man following closely, while others also came in.
The sergeant looked up.
“Ah, Brandon,” he said to the officer, “another one?”