She thinks her husband favors me above his own sons." "Then she would not be apt to believe you innocent of this crime if the police should arrest you?
She would not come to your assistance ?" "With Mr.Cameron unconscious and likely to die--no, sir." "There was silence for a moment, and then Fremont asked: "Do you think they will lock me up, sir ?" "The police will want to do something at once," was the reply.

"They like to make a flash, as the boys say on the Bowery." "Suppose I send for a man high in authority, here now, and tell him the truth ?" suggested Fremont.

"Wouldn't I stand a better show than if the matter passed through the hands of some ambitious detective ?" "They are all ambitious," was the non-committal reply.
"You keep the whole matter out of the hands of the cops until you know just what you want to do," advised Jimmie.

"I don't like the cops.
They pinched me once for shootin' craps." After further talk, Fremont decided to leave the course to be taken entirely to his new friends, and that point was considered closed.

Then Nestor turned to another phase of the matter.