“You bet,” Jerry said quickly. “Don’t you think he’s had enough, Boss Whitney?”
“Perhaps, but—”
“And I sort of led him on,” interrupted the boy. “I’d like it a heap if you’d let him go.”
Mr. Whitney was silent a minute as he thought over Jerry’s plea for the captive.
“If I could be sure he wouldn’t do any more harm—”
“He no more make trouble,” put in the Indian gravely. “He scared too much. I take him border. He no come back.”
“I think he is right,” agreed Captain Wendell. “Once he’s in Mexico it will be a long time before he ever has nerve enough to slip back.”
“All right then, Jerry,” was Mr. Whitney’s decision. “I’ll leave it to you and Feather-in-the-Wind to do with him as you like.”