'Now don"t go turning on the sympathy,' growled the sergeant. 'I don"t
care whether the boy is guilty or not. All I know is that we have got to
make a case against him. It would never do to have it said that two
sharpers could rob a countryman in broad daylight in our precinct.
Haven"t our reports to headquarters said, and haven"t the papers said,
that our precinct has been free from all such crimes for more than six
months, and this is one of the rawest swindles that has been worked for
a long time. So you two get busy and fix up your case if you want to
stay in this precinct. If you don"t, I"ll tell the captain and the
inspector, and you will be sorry.'
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