"I'm the sheriff of this county," the man said. "You say you stopped this machine?"
"We can stop any machine, even a Rolls-Royce," I told him.
"Yes?" he said.
"You'd better ask this fellow how it was," I said, pointing to Westy.
"We stopped them, that's all," Westy said. That was just like him.
"Well then, I'll tell you," I said. "When they said they couldn't get by, they wanted to run our car down into the lake. What did they care?"
"But we foiled them," Pee-wee shouted.
"Foiled them, hey?" the sheriff said. Gee, he couldn't help smiling.
Then I just grabbed Westy's head and pulled it where the men could see. "When they were on the railroad car," I said, "this fellow took the spark plugs out of the machine and hid them in the lake."
One of the men blurted out, "What!"