“I’d rather not tell you. It would be better all round that you shouldn’t know.”
“But I must know. Tell me.”
“I’ve not thought it all out.” Hoyt passed a weary hand over his brow. “For one thing, the worst point against Landon is that person who telephoned and called Mr. Trowbridge ‘uncle’. If I could get some one to swear that he did that, it would go a long way in Landon’s favor.”
“Some one who didn’t really do it, you mean?”
“Yes, of course. It would be perjury, and it would have to be handsomely paid for.”
“How wicked!”
“Don’t think for a moment that I don’t realize the wickedness of it! Even you can have no idea what such an act means to a man, and a lawyer. A hitherto honorable lawyer! Oh, Avice, what a man will do for a woman!”
“I’m not sure I want you to.”
“You want Kane freed?”
“Yes, oh, yes!”