"
"I should forget not only my gratitude, but my duty to the laws, were
I to leave this prisoner in your hands, even by his own consent,
without knowing the nature of his crime, in which we may have all been
his innocent accessaries."
"Will it satisfy you to know, that he merits all he will receive?"
"It will at least change my opinion of his character."
"Look then at this," said Ishmael, placing before the eyes of the
Captain the bullet that had been found about the person of the dead
Asa; "with this morsel of lead did he lay low as fine a boy as ever
gave joy to a parent's eyes!"
"I cannot believe that he has done this deed, unless in self-defence,
or on some justifiable provocation. That he knew of the death of your
son, I confess, for he pointed out the brake in which the body lay,
but that he has wrongfully taken his life, nothing but his own
acknowledgment shall persuade me to believe."
"I have lived long," commenced the trapper, who found, by the general
pause, that he was expected to vindicate himself from the heavy
imputation, "and much evil have I seen in my day.
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