CHAPTER XVIVARIOUS LEADS
Notwithstanding the care of Larry’s Captain to withhold the news, somebody at the station house talked indiscreetly. In the next morning’s papers it was published that Officer Harker, “the young hero of the Kenley case,” had resigned from the force. It made a piquant item. No reason for Larry’s act was given; whoever had talked, his indiscretion stopped short of that; and as yet the reporters had not succeeded in finding Larry himself. Upon reading the item, Larry precipitately packed his belongings and changed his boarding-house.
In his new room he sat himself down to consider the whole situation. It was a new exercise for Larry to think a thing through. The dunderhead was developing fast. He was fairly well composed in his mind. There was a fire burning in him,
