"All right, I'll go," answered Nick Smithers, but an instant later he started to run away through the crowd. Nat, however, was on guard, and putting out a foot, he sent the rascal pitching headlong on the depot platform.
"Hi! what did you do that for?" demanded Nick Smithers, on arising. And he glared at our hero as if to eat him up.
"You'll come along with me!" came angrily from the policeman, and without more ceremony he marched the swindler to the police station, with our hero following.
CHAPTER XXX
NAT COMES INTO HIS OWN
Once at the police station, Nat made a charge against Nick Smithers, and then the swindler was asked what he had to say for himself.
"This is all a mistake," he said. "I am not the person."
"He is wanted in Chicago as well as in New York City," went on our hero.
In the meantime another officer had been looking up Nick Smithers' picture in the rogues' gallery.