"Where are you going? I suppose I need not tell you that I was on my way home when I came here, for I suppose you have been spying on my movements."
"Never. I feared you were acting unwisely, but I never dreamed of watching you. Providence has put your plans in my hands at nearly every step, but I was so ignorant that, of myself, the information would have done but little service to poor Jack. I came into the court by the merest chance. I saw you get into the cab at Willard's, and as I had only reached Washington, I wanted to see you before you went away. I drove after you—followed without the slightest suspicion of the place or your purpose in it."
"Well, all your running about is useless. He will be sentenced to death and the family disgraced. Nothing can now prevent that."
"Yes, Jack can prevent it! I can prevent it!"
"How?"
"Jack will be found. Surely they dare not commit such a monstrous crime against the absent, the undefended!"
"Well, we won't talk of it. I suppose you are with the Spragues?"
"Yes; I shall remain with them until this is ended."
"What if I should tell you to come home with me?"
"I should, of course, obey you if you commanded me. But before doing so I should have to put my statement in legal shape—that is, swear to it, and give my address to the court that I might be regularly summoned."