'
ROBERTS: 'But he would never insist--'
WILLIS: 'Oh, I don't know about that. He's pretty queer, Bemis is.
You can't say what an old gentleman like that will or won't do. If
he should choose to carry it into court--'
ROBERTS: 'Court!'
WILLIS: 'It might be embarrassing. And anyway, it would have a
very strange look in the papers.'
ROBERTS: 'The papers! Good gracious!'
WILLIS: 'Ten years from now a man that heard you mentioned would
forget all about the acquittal, and say: "Roberts? Oh yes! Wasn't
he the one they sent to the House of Correction for garotting an old
friend of his on the Common!" You see, it wouldn't do to go and
make a clean breast of it to Bemis.'
ROBERTS: 'I see.'
WILLIS: 'What will you do?'
ROBERTS: 'I must never say anything to him about it. Just let it
go.'
WILLIS: 'And keep his watch? I don't see how you could manage
that. What would you do with the watch? You might sell it, of
course--'
ROBERTS: 'Oh no, I COULDN'T do that.'
WILLIS: 'You might give it away to some deserving person; but if it
got him into trouble--'
ROBERTS: 'No, no; that wouldn't do, either.'
WILLIS: 'And you can't have it lying around; Agnes would be sure to
find it, sooner or later.'
ROBERTS: 'Yes.'
WILLIS: 'Besides, there's your conscience. Your conscience
wouldn't LET you keep Bemis's watch away from him.
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