Chapter 22

The girl came up to the railing and gazed anxiously through at the corner of the only back fence she could perceive. "What a perfectly dreadful thing to happen!" she said in a voice not very steady. "It is exceedingly nice of you to help me catch Clarence. He is quite beside himself, poor lamb! You see, he has never before been in the city. I--I shall be distressed beyond m-measure if he is lost." "He went over those fences," said Brown, breathing faster. "I think I'd better go after him." "Oh--_would_ you mind? I'…