Sure it's
the truth!
"Well I kept a-thinking it over. One day about three weeks later, blest if
the same car didn't stop at the same fountain, and the same nurse got out
with the boys and she set them on the same bench and told them the same
thing, and then she went into another palaver with the same p'liceman. I
looked on pretty much interested, and before long the boys got to running
again and one tripped the other, and she saw and come running, and fetched
him a crack like to split his head, and pushed him down still and white,
so I said to myself: 'All right for you. Lady tried a lady and got
nothing. Here's where a gentleman tries a gentleman, and sees what he
gets.'
"I marched into the door just across the hall from you here, and faced Mr.
James Minturn, and gave him names, and dates, and addresses, even the
copper's name I'd got; and I told him all I've told you, and considerable
more. He wasn't so fiery as the lady, so I told him the whole thing, but
he never opened his trap. He just sat still and stony, listened till I
quit, and finally he heaved a big breath and looked at me sort of dazed
like and he said: 'What do you want, boy?'
"That made me red hot so I said: 'I want you to know that I saw the same
woman bust one of your _boys_ a good crack, over the head, a few minutes
ago.
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