"For your wife's sake."
"I am surprised at your consideration. You showed very little when you discharged my boy from your factory."
"That was a matter of business. But there is no time to waste in discussion. I advise you to go to the station at once. A train will leave for New York in half an hour, and you may be able to escape before the arrival of the officers."
"But I don't want to escape."
"Are you mad?" demanded the squire, impatiently. "Do you want to spend a term of years in prison?"
"Then profit by my warning, and escape while there is time."
"No. If I am arrested I will stand trial."
"Have you taken leave of your senses?"
"No; I wish to prove my innocence."