"The infant?" laughed Percival.

"The babee?" exclaimed the girl with a look of scorn. "No, the watch.How I can put the babee in the boy pocket? That is stupid.It is easy to do when I am so close to the boy and he not knowit. You have the watch then. You are be arrest, yes?"

"No, I always was not arrested, and I found an owner for it. Your friendtried to get it, but I had heard him say that he had stolen it, andI would not give it up."

"An, and now he has go away and I do not see him. You want that youshall arrest him?"

"No, I don't care anything about him," exclaimed Jack, "but I did wantto know how the watch got in my pocket without my knowing it."

"An, that is one easy thing to do," laughed the kid. "Then youdo not mean to make me arrest?"

"No, certainly not," exclaimed Jack.