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"What on earth is the matter? " Henrietta asked Officer Schulig. "What have you got those handcuffs on Mr. Redding for?"
"Why this dod-basted lunatic went an' arrested me," sputtered Harvey. "I whanged him on the head an' you'd 'a' whanged him on the head, too, if he'd come arrestin' you when you was n't doin' nothin' but sittin' in your rockin'-chair meditatin' -- "