And from this position she refused to be moved.
But Nick did not press the matter.
As the leader of a gang of burglars, Parks was put on trial and sentenced to ten years.
Nick thought he had seen the last of him when he saw him go on board the train in charge of Special Detective Jones, who was to convey the criminal to Sing Sing.
But Parks was not a man to take his punishment without an effort to escape it.
He had prepared for this trip to Sing Sing.
Docilely he took his seat alongside the plain-clothes man in the smoking car, which was then empty.
Jones took out a paper and settled himself back for the long ride; glancing once or twice at the placid face of the man beside him.
Truth to tell, he had an immense respect for this criminal leader, and he appreciated the responsibility of the task that had devolved upon him in lieu of the deputy sheriff who usually escorted prisoners to Sing Sing.
The car began to fill, but no one glanced at the detective and his prisoner, for Jones was in plain clothes, and his newspaper covered the handcuffs that linked Parks’ right hand with the left hand of the detective.