He immediately sent to his hotel for him, and together they devised means to effect Bobby's liberation.

The squire was even more confident than Mr.Bayard that our hero was innocent of the crime charged upon him.

They agreed to proceed immediately to the State of Maine, and use their influence in obtaining his pardon.

The bookseller was a man of influence in the community, and was as well known in Maine as in Massachusetts; but to make their application the surer, he procured letters of introduction from some of the most distinguished men in Boston to the governor and other official persons in Maine.
We will leave them now to do the work they had so generously undertaken, and return to the Reform School, where Bobby and Tom were confined.

The latter took the matter very coolly.