“I’m the deputy sheruff of this town,� announced the individual who had boarded them. “And you are took up for breaking the speed limit and defyin’ two regler authorized officers of the law.�
CHAPTER V
DISPENSING JUSTICE.
The driver bristled with indignation.
“It’s an outrage!� he cried. “We must get to Albion in time to catch the three-forty train. You can’t stop us.�
“I’ve stopped ye already,� said Deputy Sheriff Newberry serenely. “Under the circumstances it don’t become you to tell me what I can’t do. You’ll be permitted to proceed on your way to Albion after Jedge Wiggin attends to your case. So you might as well soople down and take it calm.�
“But you don’t understand, you don’t know who you’re holding up in this high-handed fashion. You are interfering with——â€�
“Wait, Hitchens!� cut in the other man, giving a glance at his watch. “Never mind telling him who we are.�
“’Tain’t necessary,� stated Newberry. “You’ll have to tell the jedge, anyhow.�
“How long,� asked the man with the watch, “will it require to get through with this business so that we may go on. It is most important that we should get that train.�
“Wull,� drawled the deputy, “if the jedge is around handy, and he don’t read you too long a lecture before he slaps on the fine, mebbe you’ll git started ag’in in half or three-quarters of an hour; ’tain’t likely to be more’n an hour, anyhow.�