"Where are you going?"
"I am going to tell Austin what I think of him. You don't expect me to stand by and allow a pack of jays to hunt me down as if I were Jesse James or some other desperado, do you?"
"Do you suppose they would credit your story? They will throw you into jail and there you'd stay until some one came down from Chicago to identify you."
"But a word from you would clear me," he said in surprise.
"If they pinned me down to the truth, I could only say I had never seen you until this afternoon."
"Great Scott! You know I am Crosby, don't you?"
"I am positive you are, but what would you, as a lawyer, say to me if you were cross-examining me on the witness stand? You'd ask some very embarrassing questions, and I could only say in the end that the suspected horse thief told me his name and I was goose enough to believe him. No, my dear friend, I think the safest plan is to take advantage of the few minutes' start we have and escape the law."
"You mean that I must run from these fellows as if I were really a thief?"
"Only a suspected thief, you know."
"I'd rather be arrested a dozen times than to desert you at this time."