Of course that's nonsense.

Potts hasn't the wit to rob a post-office.

But I didn't have the heart to tell Billy so.

I told him, instead, that this was the chance of his life; to fasten to Potts like an enraged leech, and draw out every secret of his dark past.

You can't tell--Billy might find something to pry him into the next county with, anyway." "He certainly looked charged with information this afternoon.