“Thank you! So he is one of the robbers? I knew he was a bad man, but he is worse than I supposed.”
The woman followed the crowd to the station-house, where Bob and Frank, as well as the chief of the officers, made a formal complaint against the gang.
After this, two of the officers, accompanied by Frank, set out to recover what they could of the money and other things which had been stolen.
For some reason he could not explain, Bob was deeply interested in the woman in black. Presently, seeing a good chance, he spoke to her.
“You say you know this Dix?” he began.
“Yes, I have known him for years.”
“I am very anxious to learn something about him,” went on Bob.
“And I am very anxious to make him tell me something,” returned the woman. “He did me a wrong, and I want him to do what he can to right it.”
“He did me a wrong also.”
“Indeed? May I ask your name?”