CHAPTER IV.

High Crimes in low Places--Honest Baggage-masters--Suspicious Circumstances--Watching the Suspected--Shunning the Dust--Honesty Triumphant--An Episode--Unexpected Confession--The Night Clerks--Conformity to Circumstances--Pat the Porter--Absents himself--Physician consulted--The Dead Child--Hunting Excursions--"No Go"--Pat explains his Absence--His Discharge--The Grave-stones--Stolen Money appears--The Jolly Undertakers--Pat at the Grave--More Hunting--Firing a Salute--Removing the Deposits--Crossing the Ferry--Scene at the Post-Office--Trip to Brooklyn--Recovery of Money--Escape--Encounter with a Policeman--Searching a Steamer--Waking the wrong Passenger--Accomplices detained--Luxuries cut off--False Imprisonment Suit--Michael on the Stand--Case dismissed 95