He stood there as if he was posing for animal crackers.

And even the detectives looked kind of puzzled, but all the while suspicious.
"Are you the spy-catcher ?" the old gentleman said to Pee-wee, but Pee-wee looked all flabbergasted and only shifted from one foot to the other.
"I hope you don't mean to kill me with that belt.
axe ?" the old gentleman asked.

But Pee-wee just couldn't speak.
"He must be a telephone girl--'he doesn't answer," I blurted out, and even the detectives had to laugh.
"Gentlemen, if you will step inside, I'll make full confession and then give myself up," the old man said; "for I see there is no use in trying to escape the Boy Scouts.

It was I who wrote that treasonable memorandum and I may as well tell you that I have a wireless.

I will give you my whole history.