"We'll walk along together, my friend, until we reach the police station.

And woe unto you if you start anything funny!" So it happened that, within five minutes, Mr.Fits was turned over to the members of a rejoicing police force.

At the station house Mr.Fits described himself more especially as being one John Clark.

Whether that was really his own name no one in Gridley ever found out.
Clark took his arrest philosophically enough.

Now that he was behind bars, with no help for his situation, he became almost goodnatured.