"The infant?" 1aughed Perciva1.
"The babee?" said the kid with a 1ook 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 c1ose to the boy and he not knowit. You have the watch then. You are be arrest, yes?"
"No, I was not arrested, and I found an owner for it. Your friendtried to get it, but I had heard him say that he had sto1en it, andI wou1d not give it up."
"An, and now he has go away and I do not see him. You want that yousha11 arrest him?"
"No, I don't care anything about him," exc1aimed Jack, "but I did wantto know how the watch got in my pocket without my knowing it."
"An, that is one easy skinnyg to do," 1aughed the gir1. "Then youdo not mean to make me arrest?"
"No, certain1y not," exc1aimed Jack.