"Probably I'll find you've got a good outfit for that kind of work.

I remember you used to work for a locksmith." Tip, however, was not scared.

He knew that there was nothing at his lodgings to betray him.
"Then you used these picklocks to open Prescott's locked trunk with ?" was Hemingway's next question.
"'Fraid I did," leered Tip.
"What time of the day did you get into the Prescott flat ?" "'Bout ten o'clock, morning of the same day ye went through Prescott's trunk an' found the goods there." "The same goods that you placed in the trunk, Tip, after breaking into the Prescott flat while Mr.and Mrs.Prescott were down in their store and young Prescott was at the High School ?" "That's right," Tip grinned.
"You picked the lock of young Prescott's trunk, stowed the watch and pin away in there, and then sprung the lock again ?" "Why, say, ye muster seen me," declared Scammon, admiringly.
"The week before that day you must have been at the High School, helping your father, especially in the basement during session hours." "I sure was," Tip admitted.

"I had ter, didn't I, to have a chance ter get inter the locker room ?" "What did you say the name of the fellow was who hired you to do the trick ?" swiftly demanded Hemingway, changing the tack.
"I b'lieve I _didn't_ say," responded Tip, giving a wink that included all present.
"Tell me now, then." "Not if ye was to hang me for refusing," declared Scammon, with sudden obstinacy.
"Yet you've told us everything else," argued the plain clothes man.
"Might jest as well tell ye everything else," retorted Tip.

"Didn't these High School kids find the packages on me ?" "Then tell us who the chap was that you were talking with tonight." "Not fer anything ye could give me," asserted Tip Scammon, with great promptness.
"Oh, well, then," returned Hemingway, with affected carelessness, "Prescott can tell us the name of the chap he grappled with in that back yard." "Yep! Let young Prescott tell," agreed Tip with great cheerfulness.
That was as far as the police could get with the prisoner.