I gave him fifty dollars to look after Henry's case. He thought,
considering how little, and that little involuntarily, my son had to
do with the matter, be might be got off; he would do all he could
for him anyhow. He then returned to Belvidere, and I took the road
north.
When I arrived at Port Jervis I detailed to my landlord the whole
occurrences of the day--what I had tried to do, and how miserably I
had failed, and asked him what was to be done next. He said
"nothing;" we could only wait and see what happened.
The day following I received a letter from the Belvidere lawyer
informing me that Henry had been examined, had been bound over in
the sum of three hundred dollars to take his trial on a charge of
kidnapping, and he was then in the county jail. I at once showed
this letter to the landlord, and he offered to go down with another
man to Belvidere and see about the bail. I gave him three hundred
dollars, which he took with him and put into the bands of a resident
there who became bail, and in a day or two Henry came back with them
to Port Jervis.
My son was frantic; he had been roughly treated; and to think, he
said, that he should be thrust into the common jail and kept there
two days with all sorts of scoundrels, 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.
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