"Why?" said he. "What for?"
"Well, I went after you that night, and piloted you up there," said I.
"That's true," said he, "but you must collect your fee of the patients, as I do."
"Little there's left for me when you are done with them," said I.
I found my cap and comforters about a fortnight after that, in the top of some choke-cherry bushes below the bridge.