As it is, the affair is altogether changed.

Even if I wished to do so, as a magistrate I could not release those two highwaymen; they must appear as prisoners in court.

I shall hear down in the town tomorrow morning what coach has been stopped, and I have no doubt that they have on them the proceeds of the robbery.

Your son was consorting with and aiding them, and acting as a receiver of stolen goods, and as you have heard horses here before it is probable that when his room is thoroughly searched we shall come upon a number of articles of the same sort.

I am sorry that I ever meddled in the matter; but it is too late for that now.