I was the person who should have helped her in.

I was a lummox, a lunkhead, a lubber, a fool, a saphead--I was everything that was awkward and clumsy and thumb-hand-sided! To let an old married man get ahead of me in that way was a crime.

I slouched down into the seat, and the judge drove off, after handing me a revolver.

I slipped it into my pocket.
"Jake's my body-guard to-night, Miss Royall," said the judge.

"We've got the county's money here.