“I am sorry for you, but I cannot do otherwise than my duty in this matter.”
“That’s right; lock him up,” came from Gabe Flecker, who enjoyed the quandary in which our hero was thus placed.
Frank’s heart sank within him. This was a situation of which he had not dreamed. He had caught Gabe Flecker, but by doing so, it was possible that he would miss catching that greater rascal, Jabez Garrison.
CHAPTER XXX
FRANK MEETS HIS BROTHER MARK
“Do you mean to say that we shall have to remain here?” demanded Gasper Lee of the officer.
“Unless you can furnish security for your appearance against this Flecker. You must remember, you are all strangers to me, and he may be as innocent as you are—in which case I should get myself into trouble if I allowed you to get away.”
“This is an outrage!” stormed the planter. “I am a Southern gentleman, sir.”
“Perhaps you know somebody in Greensboro who might go security for you,” suggested the officer.
The planter stroked his beard.