Hear how it goes with me, and I'll leave the judgment of it to yourself.

The first thing they have to do is to get rid of Alan.

They cannae bring in James as art and part until they've brought in Alan first as principal; that's sound law: they could never put the cart before the horse." "And how are they to bring in Alan till they can catch him ?" says I.
"Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he.

"Sound law, too.

It would be a bonny thing if, by the escape of one ill-doer another was to go scatheless, and the remeid is to summon the principal and put him to outlawry for the non-compearance.