“‘We want you,’ said one of them.
“‘No, you don’t,’ said I.
“‘Yes, we do,’ said he.
“It seemed to be getting time for some bluffing, so I hit right out. ‘Where’s your headquarters?’ said I.
“‘Right over here,’ said he.
“‘All right,’ said I, ‘that’s where we’re going, right now. We’ll see if two railroad men can’t walk through Chaplin’s yards whenever they feel like it.’
“And all the while we were talking I could hear that second train a-whooping it up for the state line—clickety—clickety—whoo-oo-oo! —clickety—clickety—getting fainter and fainter.
“There was a big captain dozing on a bench in the station house. When he saw us come in, he climbed up behind his desk so he could look down on us—they like to look down at you, you know.
“‘Well, Captain,’ said the officer, ‘we’ve got ’em.’
“‘Yes,’ the captain answered, looking down with a grin, ‘I think you have.’