"Are you? Then lead on, that I may see Bob, who at least will talk sense."
"Poor young boy, he'll be hanged, oh, yes, he will, and even your honors cannot save him."
[CHAPTER XXIX.]
A LESSON IN MILITARY LAW.
Even the charms of Bertha Tempest's company did not cause her husband to neglect his duty.
When he was told that Bob was in trouble, he at once deemed it to be his duty and a privilege to go with Vernon and see in what the boy's danger consisted.
Bob was one of nature's rough gems, and Tempest believed there was a future for him which would repay Scarron for his kindness in adopting the waif.
"Lead on!" commanded Vernon, as the watchman seemed to hesitate.