"
"An, yes, and you find the watch in your pocket? That is very droll!"
and the girl began to laugh.
"Yes, it was very funny," said Jack, "but how did it get there?"
"I put it there, me, myself. I am afraid to carry so fine a watch
and I wish to get rid of him. When you give me the baby and are
tangle in the blanket I put him in your pocket."
"The baby?" laughed Percival.
"The babee?" said the girl with a look of scorn. "No, the watch.
How I can put the babee in the boy pocket? That is stupid.
It is easy to do when I am so close to the boy and he not know
it. You have the watch then. You are be arrest, yes?"
"No, I was not arrested, and I found an owner for it. Your friend
tried to get it, but I had heard him say that he had stolen it, and
I would not give it up."
"An, and now he has go away and I do not see him. You want that you
shall arrest him?"
"No, I don't care anything about him," said Jack, "but I did want
to know how the watch got in my pocket without my knowing it."
"An, that is one easy thing to do," laughed the girl. "Then you
do not mean to make me arrest?"
"No, certainly not," said Jack.
"I am very glad. Good morning, sir," said Gabrielle, and in a
moment she had whisked past the boys, and when they turned to see
where she had gone she had disappeared.
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