"What's this trouble about?" demanded the policeman gruffly.
"It's an outrage, and high time you got here," wailed Bunny. "Officer, just look at me!"
"You seem to look just right to me," grinned the policeman.
"Officer, I demand that you arrest these two fellows!" insisted Bunny, in a shaking voice. "They'd have killed me if you hadn't got here just when you did."
"Hold your tongue," commanded the policeman. Then, turning to Hal, he asked:
"What's the rights of this affair?"
"Don't you listen to what they say!" screamed Bunny. "They'll lie like a house afire. I was going along, minding my own business, when this pair jumped on me. You see what they did to me."
"Officer, what's the meaning of this?" demanded a man who had just come on the scene. It was Bunny's father, the agitator and anarchistic lecturer.
"If you'll keep quiet long enough I'll soon find out," retorted the policeman.
"Officer," demanded the elder Hepburn, "do you know who I am?"