If you'll sign a statement to the effect that you were a witness of the murder, and that Lawler was the aggressor, I'll hold it over him, and we'll make him get down off his hind legs and be good.

When I show him the statement you can be sure he will never want to stand trial.

And we won't force him.

We'll let the court at Willets examine him; and they'll have to let him off." "It would be satisfying--wouldn't it, Gary ?" she said, after a time.
"You're a brick, Della!" he laughed.
She got up and stood beside him as he wrote.

And Warden did not see the designing light in her eyes as she watched him.