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"I reht you should have come up for a feords with us"

"I intended to, but there wasn't any time We hurried out to find Curly Well, ere too late Our horses were gone by the ti, but those of the other boys aiting in the stalls already saddled We guessed the hold-up would be close to the bank, because the treasurer of the association ht take any one of three streets to drive in fro The boys were just drunk enough not to re for our friends so as to stop this crazy play they were going to pull off, Colter and Icountry and he held us there talking While ere still there news coht back to the corral Our horses were there The boys had ridden back, swapped them for their own, and hit the trail Mosby's idea had been to throw suspicion on us for an hour or two until they could etaway We rode back to the crowd, learned the particulars, and followed the boys My thought was that if we could get the ht make terms with the association"

"That's why you were in a hurry when you passed us"

"That's why"

"And of course the sheriff thought you were running away fro else, could he?"

"How blind I was--how lacking in faith! And all the time I knew in my heart you couldn't have done it," she reproached herself

His masterful eyes fastened on her "Did your friends know it? Did Miss Joyce think I couldn't have done it?"

"You'll have to ask her what she thought I didn't hear Joyce give an opinion"

"Is she going to marry that fellow Verinder?"

"I don't know"

"He'll ask her, won't he?"

She smiled at his blunt question a little wanly "You'll have to ask Mr Verinder that I' You knoell enough"

"I think he will"

"Will she take him?"

"It's hard to tell what Joyce will do I'd rather not discuss the subject, please Tell me, did you find your friends?"

"We ran them down in the hills at last I knew pretty well about where they would be and oneI dropped in on them We talked it all over and I put it up to them that if they would turn the loot over to me I'd try to call off the officers Curly was sick and asha to do whatever I thought best Mosby had different notions, but I persuaded hiht They told me where they had hidden the et it when I found little Bess Landor lost in the hills Gill nabbed me as I took her to the ranch"