“I never said a thing I didn’t do, and I won’t go back on this,” said Will, with an earnest and assured air that gave her new hope.
The boy was energetic, honest and shrewd, and his early life might have given him much experience of the criminal classes. He might then not be talking without warrant, and she felt herself leaning with great faith upon his promise.
“Guess I’d better be going now,” said Will. “My time’s about up.”
In ten minutes more, his errand completed, he was on his way back to the store.
CHAPTER XV.
WILL VISITS MR. SOMERS.
“I would have preferred to have kept this matter quiet,” said Mr. Fitler, the officer. “But that cannot be done now. The robbery of the cloths is public property, and the arrest of John Elkton has made the affair of the silks as public.”
“And he still refuses to tell where he got the piece which he gave my ward?” asked Mr. Leonard, anxiously.
“Yes. We cannot get a word from him about it.”
“That has a very suspicious look,” said Mr. Wilson. “The man could have no object in screening robbers unless he hopes to save himself by it.”