"You don't have to appear."
"Why not?"
"He wasn't with the bunch locked up last night."
"Impossible!"
"It's true, unfortunately."
"How could that be? I don't understand it."
"Nor I. I'm doing my best to get at the bottom of it. Neither he nor Bantry Hagan were locked up. Both got away somehow."
Frank was more than vexed over this information.
"There's something crooked about this, Bronson!" he exclaimed. "Why, you put the irons on Jalisco."
"I know I did, and I'm shy a good pair of bracelets."