“I can’t thank you enough,” he said. “You have perhaps saved my life.”
“You save my little boy.”
“Do you know that man?”
“No.”
“It was John Fox, one of the Fox brothers, the famous outlaws.”
“Humph! I have heard of him. How did he catch you?”
Ernest told the story. He also told of the commission he had from the Emmonsville bank.
“I am going to ask you a favor,” he asked.
“What is it?”
“I want you to go with me to the bank at Lee’s Falls. I have a package of bonds to carry there and I don’t think it safe to go alone. I will see that you are paid for your time and trouble.”