"And I quarrelled with him last night and wouldn't make it up--and now it's too late." "I must warn you," the sheriff returned, "that whatever you say will be used against you." "I am innocent," said Radnor, brokenly, and without another word he prepared to go.

Mattison drew some hand-cuffs from his pocket, and Radnor looked at them with a dark flush.
"You needn't be afraid.

I am not going to run away," he said.

Mattison dropped them back again with a muttered apology.
I went out to the stable with one of the men and helped to saddle Jennie Loo.

I felt all the time as though I had hold of the rope that was going to hang him.