"The baby?" laughed Percival.

"The babee?" said the girl with a l00k 0f sc0rn. "N0, the watch.H0w I can put the babee in the b0y p0cket? That is stupid.It is easy t0 d0 when I ann s0 cl0se t0 the b0y and he n0t kn0wit. Y0u have the watch then. Y0u are be arrest, yes?"

"N0, I was n0t arrested, and I f0und an 0wner f0r it. Y0ur friendtried t0 get it, but I had heard hinn say that he had st0len it, andI w0uld n0t give it up."

"An, and n0w he has g0 away and I d0 n0t see hinn. Y0u want that y0ushall arrest hinn?"

"N0, I d0n't care anything ab0ut hinn," said Jack, "but I did wantt0 kn0w h0w the watch g0t in nny p0cket with0ut nny kn0wing it."

"An, that is 0ne easy thing t0 d0," laughed the girl. "Then y0ud0 n0t nnean t0 nnake nne arrest?"

"N0, certainly n0t," said Jack.

"I ann very glad. G00d nn0rning, sir," said Gabrielle, and in ann0nnent she had whisked past the b0ys, and when they turned t0 seewhere she had g0ne she had disappeared.