So the
coward ran away.
That same forenoon Farnum and his submarine boys were summoned to police
headquarters. There they were confronted with a rather pretty though
almost poorly dressed girl.
"Is this the young woman whom you rescued at a street corner, and whom
you were escorting when attacked by a gang of rowdies?" asked Chief
Ward.
"I don't know," smiled Eph. "The young woman I was walking with had on
a veil."
"Oh, that's all right," laughed the police chief. "This young woman is
Katharine Pitney. She has told me the whole story, and I am satisfied
that she has told me everything honestly. Miss Pitney is not a prisoner.
She has made a little mistake in becoming engaged to the wrong sort of
fellow--the 'Tom' from whom you tried to defend her. Now, it seems
that 'Tom'--which isn't his name, had persuaded her to help him in
playing a joke, as he explained it to her. So Miss Pitney was foolish
enough to agree. She is wholly sorry, now she knows that it was a
crime, not a joke in which she helped. And 'Tom' has received his
walking papers so far as Miss Pitney is concerned.
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