"You're nervy, but you ain't got good sense, doin' a think like that with the shades up, the lights on, an' the door unlocked.

What did you go an' do it for ?" The sinister meaning of the words took form in the mind of the boy instantly.

For the first time he realized that he would be accused of the crime, and that circumstances would be against him.

If Mr.Cameron should never recover sufficiently to give a true account of what had taken place, he would be arrested and locked up as the guilty one.
If his benefactor should die without regaining consciousness, he might even be sent to the electric chair, and always his name would be mentioned with horror.

While these thoughts were passing through the dazed mind of the boy, there came, also, the keen regret that Frank Shaw had not accompanied him to the building.