Boys of your size"-- he hesitated and left the sentence unfinished.

"Still, you may have seen something--hey ?" Again I could not answer.
"At any rate," he went on, "I gave you the benefit of the doubt and resolved to warn you.

It was a mistake to run away: but the mischief's done.

How were you proposing to make off ?" "You--you won't give me up, sir ?" "No, for I think you must be innocent--of what they told me, at least.

I feel so certain of it that, as you see, my conscience allows me to warn you.