“No, papa, but it is lonely here sometimes. Am I to live here always?”
“No, Frank. Some time I will send you to school. But you won’t see me every day then.”
“Then I don’t want to go.”
The outlaw stooped over and kissed the boy.
“Now, Frank, I have something to do, so you may amuse yourself with Ernest.”
“Can you play dominoes?” asked Frank.
“Yes; have you a set?”
“Yes.”
The boy opened a drawer in a bureau and drew out a box of dominoes. He poured them out on the table and they began to play the ordinary game. When they tired of that Ernest taught him a new one.
After they grew tired of playing Ernest read aloud to the boy from one of his favorite books.