“I’ll let you go after I start on my world trip, and not before!” declared Tom. “Hold him,” he directed to his men. “And we’ll see who Koku got!”
The giant and Eradicate could be heard approaching, the big man muttering again and again:
“Me got ’im! Me got ’im!”
While Eradicate, not to be left out, added:
“I help cotch him, too! I tripped him up wif mah foot!”
“Good work, Rad! And you, also, Koku!” cried Tom. “Bring him here!”
The second prisoner was placed alongside of Hussy, the latter scowling over his fate. Tom looked at the fellow Koku and Eradicate had caught, but found him a stranger.
“Though I don’t doubt,” said Tom to Ned, “that he’s one of the Red Arrow gang. Well, two in one night isn’t so bad. Lock ’em up, men,” he said to his employees, several more of whom came running up, for a general alarm had sounded throughout the works. Many of the mechanics lived close to the shops.
“Lock us up!” burst out Hussy. “You don’t dare do that!”
“Don’t I?” cried Tom angrily. “You’ll soon see! Why shouldn’t I dare, you trespassing, thieving rascal?”