Believe you me, I never saw anything so funny as what happened then. The cop took his hands out the water and stood there dripping and staring at her.
"Hello, Anna!" he says. "What you doing here?"
"Ay bane working!" says Anna. "How you bane, Mike?"
"Pretty good!" he says. "But kind of busy with a bomb we got here. Stand off while I take a look. It has quit ticking and I guess it's drownded!"
He lifted the wet bundle out, and the minute Anna sees it she set up a yell as good as one of her pet parrot's.
"That bane mine!" she says, making a grab for it. But Mike held her off.
"Yours, eh?" he says, severely. "Yours! Well, we'll just have a look at it, my girl!"
With which he undid the string, unfolded the oilcloth, and there was a big new alarm-clock with the price still on it—2 beans—and a round, heavy cheese!
"Bane youst a present from may feller!" says Anna coyly.
Well, did we feel cheap? We did. And in addition to that Mike, the smart and brave young cop, was disappointed something terrible.