"
"Do you intend to do so?"
"Not unless I find some facts to support my suspicion."
"You will get to the bottom of the mystery, I am sure," smiled
the woman.
"I am not so sure. Why do you think so?"
"Because you are one of the cleverest boys I ever knew,
that's why. I should hate to have you on my track if I
were guilty of any particular crime that you were trying to
run down. I should expect to land in jail, and I think I
should come straight to you and give myself up," added the
woman with a merry laugh.
"I wish I were all that you think I am, Dimples."
"You are. You saved my life again yesterday. I'm going to
pay you back, however. Someday, when you fall overboard,
Little Dimples is going to jump right in and rescue you--haul
you out by the hair of your head--"
"You can't, it is cut too short."
"Then I will pull you out by an ear."
"I shall make it my business to fall in, then, at the first
opportunity," laughed Phil. "It would be worthwhile."
Dimples gave him a playful tap.
"You can turn a compliment as well as you can do a turn in the
ring, can't you Phil Forrest?"
Despite their narrow escape from serious accident, Phil and
Dimples went through their double act in the ring that day and
evening with perfect confidence.
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