He wasn't being lectured anymore for the moment, that was good. He wrapped his other arm around the kid to keep him from getting free as Rose entered. Of course she would know so much trouble, she seemed to be a magnet for it.

He covered the boy's mouth. "I'll just drop him off outside, sir." Maybe tie him up and toss him on a train out of town so he'd be out of his hair for a good long time.