, much as if he wished to add: "How does it feel?"

"I do say!" retorted Mr. Higgleby.

"Well," exclaimed Tutt cheerily, passing into the second phase of the
Tutt-Tutt treatment, "after all, bigamy isn't so bad! It's only five
years at the worst. Generally it's not more than six months."

"Get wise!" snapped Mr. Higgleby. "I didn't come here to have you throw
cold chills into me. I came here to find out how to beat it!"

"Why, certainly! Of course!" protested Tutt hastily.

"I was--"

"And I expect you to get me off!"

"Yes, yes!" murmured Tutt, his usual style completely cramped.

"No matter what!"

"Yes," faintly tuttered Tutt.

"Well," continued Higgleby, taking out a cigar that in shape and
looseness of wrapping closely resembled its owner, "now that's settled,
let's get down to brass tacks. Here's a copy of the indictment."

He produced a document bearing a large gold seal.

"Those robbers made me pay a dollar-sixty for certification!" he
remarked peevishly, indicating the ornament. "What good is certification
to me? As if I wanted to pay to make sure I was accused in exact
language! Anybody can draw an indictment for bigamy!"

COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS OF THE PEACE IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF NEW
YORK

The People of the State of New York against

THEOPHILUS HIGGLEBY

The Grand Jury of the County of New York, by this indictment,
accuse Theophilus Higgleby of the crime of bigamy, committed as
follows:

The said Theophilus Higgleby, late of the borough of Manhattan of
the city of New York in the county of New York, aforesaid, on the
eleventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and nineteen, at Cook County and the city of Chicago in the
state of Illinois, did marry one Tomascene Startup, and her, the
said Tomascene Startup, did then and there have for his wife;

And afterward, to wit, on the seventeenth day of December in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, at the
borough of Manhattan of the city of New York in the county of New
York aforesaid, did feloniously marry and take as his wife one
Alvina Woodcock, and to the said Alvina Woodcock was then and there
married, the said Tomascene Startup being then and there living and
in full life, against the form of the statute in such case made and
provided, and against the peace of the people of the state of New
York an