“Yes.”
“That would not suit me. Let me go and I will give you a thousand dollars.”
“Have you got it with you?”
“No, but I can arrange to give it to you within a week. You see,” added the outlaw dryly, “I have been prosperous in my business and can spare that sum in return for giving me my liberty.”
“I am afraid, friend Fox, that my chance of securing the money in that way would be slender.”
“I am a man of my word. What I promise, I will do.”
“If you have so much money, why did you want to take the five hundred dollars of my friend here?”
“It was all in the way of business. Well, what do you say?”
“That I won’t trust you. If I should take your thousand dollars for releasing you I should be as bad as you are.”
“Very well; drive on then,” said the outlaw sullenly.