I doan't want to put my neck in a noose, but if so be as they finds him guilty in coort and be a-going to hang him, I shall come forward and say as how I did it.

I bean't agoing to let him be hung for this job.

A loife for a loife, saes oi; so tell him to keep up his heart." There was no signature to the paper.
Ned looked up with delight in his face.
"But won't the letter clear me, Mr.Wakefield?
It shows that it was not me, but some one else who did it." "No, Sankey, pray do not cherish any false hopes on that ground.

The letter is valueless in a legal way.

To you and to your friends it may be a satisfaction; but it can have no effect on the court.