“Oh, no. Things look that way. The evidence will show that it’s not unlikely. I don’t know but that it would be a good plan to take you out of here and drop you somewhere where you’d be sure to be caught, and then both of you would go to prison, or something worse.”
“No,” said Lester, “that wouldn’t work. I was at Rocky Beach until one o’clock in the morning. The man that attends to the boats could testify to that.”
“Rocky Beach!” exclaimed Snags, with a peculiar look of surprise. Then he added: “But the man that ’tends the boats is deaf and dumb. He’d be a nice one to testify.”
“So I observed. But he could write his testimony.”
“How do you know?”
“I suppose he can write.”
“Well, perhaps he can,” said Snags, with a furtive smile.
“But can’t he?”
“What do you suppose I know about him?” Then, changing his tone, Snags said: “But there’s no use in talking about that. I guess, after all, we will keep you herefor a while. By the way, your cousin has engaged a good lawyer.”
“Who?”