"You fellers can believe me or not, but I haven't done anything to set the perlice after me. I can't say as I blame you for thinkin' it ain't so, 'cause there's that advertisement; but it's a fact all the same, an' I'm goin' to let the cops take me."
"What?" Tim Morgan screamed. "You're goin' to jail?"
"What else can I do?"
"Run away, of course, the same's we're fixin' it."
"In the first place, we haven't got money enough to go very far, an' then, ag'in, I won't leave the princess knockin' 'round the streets."
"You'd have to if you went to jail."
"I could take her with me for a spell, anyhow."
Joe appeared so thoroughly determined to give himself up to the officers of the law that his comrades were seriously alarmed.
Although there was but little question in their minds that he was guilty of some crime, not one of them was willing he should yield to the order of arrest which they believed had already been issued.
Plums looked at Dan imploringly, and the latter said, as he laid hold of Joe's arm: