Mrs. Kenyon rose and went into the hut, while Barney lazily strolled down to the creek, leaving Frank and Kate alone.
Half an hour later, as he was coming back, the Irish lad heard Kate saying:
"I know I'm igerent, an' I'm not fitten fer any educated man. Still, you an' I is friends, Frank, an' friends we'll allus be."
"Friends we will always be," said Frank, softly.
After this little more was said.
It was not long before our friends left the locality, this time bound for Oklahoma, Utah and California. What Frank's adventures were in those places will be told in another volume, entitled, "Frank Merriwell's Bravery."
"We are well out of that," said Frank, as they journeyed away. "Am I not right, Barney?"
"Sure, Frankie, sure!" was Barney's answer. "To tell the whole thruth, me b'y, ye're nivver wrong, nivver!"
And Barney was right, eh, reader?
THE END.