"I won't tell you anything about the ha'nt; it doesn't enter into the case." I sat down again and patiently outlined my theory in regard to Mose.
"It is impossible," he declared.

"I have known Mose all my life, and I have never yet known him to betray a trust.

He loved my father as much as I did, and if my life depended on it, I should swear that he was faithful." "Rad," I beseeched, "I am not only your attorney, I am your friend; whatever you say to me is as if it had never been said.

I _must_ know the truth." He shook his head.
"I have nothing to say." "You have _got_ to have something to say," I cried.

"You have got to go on the stand and make an absolutely open and straightforward statement of everything bearing on the case.