I thought Carl was going to give himself up, and would be cleared.

I never once dreamed he was the kinda mark that would let his own brother take the blame that way." "I guess nobody did." Lite folded the letter and pushed it back into the envelope.

"I can look back now, though, and see how it come about.
He hung back till Aleck found the body and was arrested; and after that he just simply didn't have the nerve to step out and say that he was the one that did it.

He tried hard to save Aleck, but he wouldn't--" "The coward! The low, mean coward!" Jean stood up and looked from one to the other, and spoke through her clinched teeth.

"To let dad suffer all this while! Lite, when did you say that train left for Salt Lake?
We can take the taxi back down town, and save time." She was at the door when she turned toward the two again.