Your confession came at just the psychological moment.

The girl's unspoken demand there in the poplars was that he free McTrigger, and it was backed up by a threat which Kedsty understood and which terrified him to his marrow.

McTrigger must have seen him afterward, for he waited at the office until Kedsty came.
I don't know what passed between them.

Constable Doyle says they were together for half an hour.

Then McTrigger walked out of barracks, and no one has seen him since.