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?”