"You damn jay!" he bellowed.

"You don't know New York cabfares.

Was you ever to town before--eh ?" Craig beckoned the policeman with vast, excited gestures.

Margaret fled up the walk toward the parsonage door, but not before she heard Craig say to the policeman: "I am Joshua Craig, assistant to the Attorney-General of the United States.

This thief here--" And so on until he had told the whole story.
Margaret kept her back to the street, but she could hear the two fiercely-angry voices, the laughter of the crowd.