Perhaps his mental suffering could not rightly be called remorse, but a poignant regret it most certainly was, and a sense of complete bafflement which came out in his next sentence.
"Even if she wrote me a letter, the boys'd call it a frame-up just the same.

They'd say I had it fixed before I left town.

Doctor Cecil's up at the Falls.

They'd lay it to her." "I was thinking of that, myself.

What's the matter with getting Chip to go up with you?
Couldn't you ring him in on the agent somehow, so he can get the straight of it ?" Andy stood up and looked at Weary a minute.