papers upon which they wished to arrest you, we referred them to you, and told them that we wished them to consult you, as you would act for us in the matter."
"I act for you?"
"We had no time to ask if you would, Mr. Preston," Mrs. Varris answered for her daughter. "When I saw the very great injury I had unconsciously done in taking you into my confidence yesterday, and then naming you to the police this morning in reply to their questions, I thought it the only thing to do to protect you and undo the wrong I had done you."
"But, Mrs. Varris," young Preston inquired, "did they not question you about me?"
"Yes."
"What did you say?"
"I said that you are an American friend who had come to England with us, but that you had not been able to join us until yesterday, and that now you were going on with us—at our wish."
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