Know you not that to assist or connive at the escape of this man was wrong?
To have promised to favour his concealment and impunity by silence was only an aggravation of this wrong.

That, however, is past.

Your youth, and circumstances, hitherto unexplained, may apologize for that misconduct; but it is certainly your duty to repair it to the utmost of your power.

Think whether, by disclosing what you know, you will not repair it." "I have spent most of last night," said the youth, "in reflecting on this subject.

I had come to a resolution, before you spoke, of confiding to you my simple tale.