“Certainly.”
“Well, then, Mr. Kensett, I don’t think I shall be able to prove my innocence, and therefore it is advisable that you aid me to escape.”
“I will save you if possible,” said the magistate, in a low voice. “But how is it to be effected? That’s the question.”
“How!” cried Sutherland. “It is easy enough, I fancy.”
“Not without compromising myself; I am quite powerless in this case, and yet——”
“You have no wish to see your grandson cast into a cell?”
The magistrate shuddered.
“Suppose you let me overpower you—tie you to a chair, and then get clear off.”
“Impossible!”
“Ah, it’s possible enough if you will only oblige me by taking off these handcuffs.”