"Well," said Maynard, "I believe you are right. There is good stuff in you, Harnash, and your unforced, voluntary confession shows it. I don't think you'll administer knock-out drops to anybody again, and eventually I suppose you'll get Stephanie, but there are conditions."
"You couldn't impose any conditions that I would not gladly meet."
"I was coming to those myself," said the girl.
"Oh, you had thought of this, too, had you?"
"Certainly."
"What are they?"
"First of all there must be no public mention by any of us of the possible fate of Derrick until we are satisfied that he is dead."
"Certainly not," said old Maynard.
The assent of Harnash was obviously not necessary to that.
"That's where you come in, father--what is the legal term?--as an accessory after the fact to what we have done."