"A bruise or so."
"And he shot Henry Falconer?"
"As dead as a herring: I sat on the body myself."
"And he will be tried for that, as for a murder?"
"Ay, faith, and hanged too, unless"——
"Unless what?"
"Unless we can prove him innocent, or establish a legal irresponsibility."
"Or snatch him out of his den, some such bright midnight as this?"
"Tush," said the lawyer, waxing in courage, "I have nothing to do with that. But cheer up. There's a way of managing these cases, and I have thought of it already. But concerning that bill of exchange and letter of credit? They say, the younker has money enough—a rich estate in the Islands?"
"Fear not for your reward," said Oran Gilbert. "Do what's expected of you, and you shall have gold enough to content you."