"That would show guilt and cowardice.

I'd much rather remain here and take what comes." "If you are arrested," the patrol leader went on, "the police, instead of doing honest work in unraveling the mystery, will bend every effort to convict you.

They will not consider any theory other than your guilt.

Every scrap of evidence will be twisted and turned into proof against you, and in the meantime the real criminal may escape.

It is a way the police have." "It seems like a confession of guilt to run away," Fremont said.
"Another thing," Nestor went on, "is this.