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when he had done actually nothing! He would go back there, stand his trial, and prove his innocence, if he died for it. He reproached me for attempting to carry off the boy against his advice and warning; he knew we should into trouble; but he would show them that he had nothing to do with it; that’s what he would do.

Now this was precisely what I did not wish to have him do. A trial of this case, even if Henry should come off scott free,


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when he had done actually nothing! He would go back there, stand his trial, and prove his innocence, if he died for it. He reproached me for attempting to carry off the boy against his advice and warning; he knew we should into trouble; but he would show them that he had nothing to do with it; that’s what he would do.

Now this was precisely what I did not wish to have him do. A trial of this case, even if Henry should come off scott free,


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