I refuse.' 'Stay--stay!' said the jailer, hastily.

'Mr Varden, I know you for a worthy man, and one who would do no unlawful act except upon compulsion--' 'Upon compulsion, sir,' interposed the locksmith, who felt that the tone in which this was said, conveyed the speaker's impression that he had ample excuse for yielding to the furious multitude who beset and hemmed him in, on every side, and among whom he stood, an old man, quite alone; 'upon compulsion, sir, I'll do nothing.' 'Where is that man,' said the keeper, anxiously, 'who spoke to me just now ?' 'Here!' Hugh replied.
'Do you know what the guilt of murder is, and that by keeping that honest tradesman at your side you endanger his life!' 'We know it very well,' he answered, 'for what else did we bring him here?
Let's have our friends, master, and you shall have your friend.

Is that fair, lads ?' The mob replied to him with a loud Hurrah! 'You see how it is, sir ?' cried Varden.

'Keep 'em out, in King George's name.

Remember what I have said.