"I s'pose the policeman wore a badge an' carried handcuffs."
"Oh, law, yes. But what's the game? What do you want to know for?"
Furtively Elisha glanced up and down the empty road and after peering over his shoulder, he dropped his voice to a confidential whisper and hissed:
"'Cause I'm goin' to make an arrest—a big arrest! I've tracked down the thief that committed the Long Island burglary. Moreover, I know this very second where the jewels are."
Eleazer's jaw dropped.
"I'm goin' to 'phone the New York police I've got their man," he concluded, drawing himself to his full height and expanding his chest until the buttons on his coat threatened to burst off.
"You be? My soul an' body!"
"Yes, I'm goin' to call long distance straight away."
Eleazer's cunning mind worked quickly.