That's your business--to suspect people.
However, I happen to feel sure that my partner would stand trial, no matter what the charge, and that he would not seek to evade it in any way.

Some sort of an accident happened at the mine this afternoon--a cave-in or an explosion that tore out the roof of the tunnel--and I am sure that my partner is injured, has made his way out of the mine, and is wandering among the hills.

Will you help me to find him ?" The sheriff wheeled about in his chair and studied a moment.

Then he rose.
"Guess I will," he announced.

"It can't do any harm to look for him, anyway." Half an hour later, aided by two deputies who had been summoned from their homes, Fairchild and the sheriff left for the hills to begin the search for the missing Harry.