"Yes, arrest them!" insisted Gus. "I'm an officer, too, and I was trying to take them in."
"You didn't seem to be having very good luck at it," grinned Whalen. "But I know these boys, and they're all good lads."
"Arrest them, just the same! They were assaulting me," insisted Dexter angrily.
"And what were you doing?" insisted Whalen wonderingly.
"He was trying to steal jewels and money from his wife," interposed Dick Prescott.
"Bah!" growled Dexter. "A man can't steal from his wife."
"But he can assault her," returned Policeman Whalen. "And a man can disturb the peace with his wife, just as handily as he can anywhere else. Mrs. Dexter, are these lads telling the truth?"
"Oh, yes, officer! My husband was trying to take this satchel away from me, and he knew that it contains my jewels and thirty-five hundred dollars in cash."
"Do you want him arrested?"
"Yes; I—I'm afraid I shall have to have him arrested, or he'll go right on annoying me."