"I'll tell you," said the policeman, "if you don't choose to clear the case by telling the facts, we'll hold the lot of you. There's such a thing in law, you know, as being an accessory before the act."
At any rate, went on Burton. "We are all very excited just now, and these ladies in particular cannot be expected to speak lucidly. Isn't it possible to wait until the extent of the wounded man's injuries is ascertained? If, as I fully believe, he is not dangerously hurt, that consideration alone may influence our attention materially."
The policeman hesitated. Burton was well known to him, and he had, of course, long since recognized the case, both brother and sister, indeed, he thought he had already summed up the incident rather shrewdly. Given such characters in this drama of real life as a couple of burglars and a pair of girls notorious in the cabarets and all-night dens of the city, it was easy to see how Grace's methods of reform could lead to a bitter quarrel.
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