"Then you don't like Dardus?" smiled the one who had addressed him
first.
"I think he is unreasonable," returned Bob.
"Yes, and none too honest," commented the other.
With the various methods known only to the police detectives of the
large metropolitan police forces, the two men put Bob through a grilling
examination, trying in every possible way to scare him into admitting
either a knowledge of who the swindlers were, or of direct complicity in
the confidence game, but without being able to shake his story, even in
the slightest detail.
Loath as the police officials were to admit Bob's innocence, his
straightforward answers and manly manner finally convinced them that he
was, as he had said, entirely guiltless, and they withdrew.
As they returned to the outer room of the police station, the sergeant
looked at them questioningly.
"That boy had nothing to do with the swindle," announced one of the men
who had been examining Bob.
"That's what," confirmed the other.
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