"Fred and me'll get right back to Farley's, ask for his address, an' send it to you by telegraph."
"That is a very good idea. A train leaves in less than an hour," the lawyer said approvingly. "Decide where the message shall be sent, and it will be there before he arrives."
Joe was unwilling to take so much responsibility upon himself, and urged that he did not look fit to visit the city; but Bill overruled all his objections.
"You're the one to go, so that settles it," the miner said as he pulled out his wallet. "Here's what money I've got, an' if more's needed let me know."
"What am I to say to the superintendent if I see him?"
"Urge that no further steps be taken against the boy. After what you say he did during the riot the officers of the company should be lenient."
"But that kind of talk sounds as if you believed he'd stole the money," Bill exclaimed in surprise.
"The case looks very bad for him, and if it should be called up before we found some evidence in his favor he would most certainly be convicted."
Sam's friends gazed at each other in astonishment. That the lawyer employed to defend him should thus intimate he was guilty almost shook their faith in the boy's innocence.
"You must go all the same," Bill said, after a long pause, "an' me an' Fred will toddle back home."