“It is so!” exclaimed Andy and Pepper, nodding slowly and solemnly.
“What? Me?” gasped Will Carey.
“Yes.”
“Wha—what did I steal?”
“You took from one of the fairest maidens of Cedarville a golden bracelet, and you have persistently refused to return the same.”
“Oh!” gasped the prisoner, and the others saw him turn pale.
“You must return the bracelet,” went on Jack. “Otherwise it will be our painful duty to chastise you severely and then hand you over to the police.”
“No! no! Don’t do that!” shrieked the Pornell Academy student. “Let me go! Please let me go!”
“Will you return the bracelet?”
“I—I did return it.”