"If you're going to start talking like that I'll leave you right now, understand?" said Brennan.
"What happened after I fainted?" he asked, realizing that Brennan meant what he said.
"We took 'Slim' and the other two to the University station and locked them up," said Brennan. "That is, Sweeney and his men took them while I brought you here. I had Sweeney take them out to University station because the other reporters would find out about it if we booked them at Central station and our whole story would have been in their hands."
"There's one thing I can't understand," John said.
"What's that?" asked Brennan.
"Why didn't 'Slim' or Louie and Joe shoot me when I put up a fight?" he asked.
"That's easy to explain," said Brennan. "They didn't try shooting because the sound of a shot would have roused the occupants of the house or have been heard by someone on the street. As it is, 'Slim' and the two others have been identified as the men seen leaving the place after Murphy was beaten up."
"And how is poor Tim?" he asked.
"There's very little hope for him," Brennan said. "They've taken him to the Clara Barton hospital and the mayor has employed two more physicians to stay with him and do everything they can for him."
"Has Sweeney arrested the 'Gink'?"