Constable 21 B. took her arm, but she struggled against him, and held her ground.
“Please, yer Washup, I ’ave spoke the truth.”
“Indeed, I hope so.”
“May the little chap come ’ome wid me, and I’ll—” But here official authority was called to interfere, and Flo was summarily ejected from the witness-box.
She found a seat at the other side of the little woman in black, who took the child’s trembling hand in hers. A few moments of patient summing up of evidence, and then the magistrate asked the prisoners if they had anything to say for themselves.
“Please, I’ll never do it no more,” said poor little Dick, in a tone which nearly broke his sister’s heart; but Jenks, the older and more hardened offender, was silent.
Then the sentence was made known. Dick, in consideration of his youth, and its being a first offence, was only to go to a reformatory school, but Jenks was doomed to Wandsworth House of Correction for nine long months.