“No.”

Jessie sighed. “I don’t know, after all, that I much expected that you would. Well, if you can wait a little for your supper, come out to the corral and let me tell you what Mr. Wilson has been saying.”

“Has he been here again?”

“Yes; he just left a few minutes before you came.”

We went on out to the corral where the cows were waiting to be milked, Guard following after us with as much sedateness and dignity as if he had never contemplated, much less committed, a foolish act in his life.


CHAPTER XXI

A FRIEND IN NEED