Davey, himself, would not say anything to implicate Conal or anyone else.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Ordinarily the great Missourian was susceptible enough to such flattery; but on this occasion, preoccupied with the idea of an intrigue for the presidency, and indignant that there should be an effort made to implicate him in it, especially as it was mixed up with schemes of stock-jobbing and of disloyalty to the Union, he took fire at once, and answered with hot indignation, in words afterwards highly resented by his questioner, "that it was on the part of some an intrigue for the presidency, and a plot to dissolve the Union; on the part of others, a Texas scrip and land speculation; and that he was against it."
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
On this subject, no satisfaction could be got from Margaret, who persisted in a dogged silence, whenever any question was put to her, tending to implicate, in any way, the man who, to all appearance, had ruined her.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton