"Ram Lal might go in to save his twenty-five thousand pounds, for the Johnstone estate will never pay these disputed claims which I cannot prove in law.

Good in honor, but bad in law! And if he should denounce me privately to the Viceroy, as the real murderer of Hugh Fraser?
He is there on the ground.

I did not denounce him.

I did not produce the dagger.

I dare not to explain why I concealed the crime.
An accessory! He might seek to turn Queen's evidence, and even try to hang me.