“What!” cried the doctor angrily. “Do you own that this accusation is true?”
“Yes, it’s true enough,” cried Brookes. “He helped him to get away from the Wattles.”
“Silence, sir!” cried Sir John sternly.
“Speak, Nic. Did you help this man to escape?”
“No, father.”
“There!” cried the doctor in triumph; but his countenance fell directly.
“I went to help him if I could, but he got away without.”
Brookes chuckled.
“Then he is somewhere about here in the bush, as Brookes says?”
“Yes, father.”