So the police had little enough trouble in 'sweating' him. He
told everything he knew. And there's a wholesale round-up of the
motor-robbery bunch going on this afternoon as a result of it.
But what I can't understand--"
"It's as clear as day," insisted the Mistress, stroking a silken
head that pressed lovingly against her knee. "As clear as day. I
was standing in the doorway here when Laddie came pattering up to
me and laid a little satchel at my feet. I opened it, and well,
it had everything of value in it that had been in the safe over
there. That and the thief's story make it perfectly plain. Laddie
caught the man as he was climbing out of that window. He got the
bag away from him; and the man chased him, firing as he went. And
he stumbled into the ditch and--"
"Nonsense!" laughed the Master. "I'll grant all you say about
Lad's being the most marvelous puppy on earth. And I'll even
believe all the miracles of his cleverness. But when it comes to
taking a bag of jewelry from a burglar and then enticing him to a
ditch and then coming back here to you with the bag--"
"Then how do you account--?"
"I don't.
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