Of course an exchange of experiences followed and then Frank and Barney boarded the Steam Man.
“Three cheers for Frank Reade, Jr., and the Steam Man, boys,” cried Silver Sam, heartily.
They were given with a will. Frank replied with several sharp notes from the whistle and then the Man was off.
Soon the Los Pueblos Mountains faded away in the distance.
For days the Steam Man kept on over wide plains until at length Laredo was reached again. Then once more the Steam Man was put aboard the cars.
The great quest was ended.
Harvey Montaine did not forget the favor done him, for two years later he sent Frank’s wife a valuable solitaire diamond worth many thousand of dollars from the mines of South America.
And so ends the story of hot work among the greasers, but it does not conclude the experiences of the Steam Man, a further account of which may be found in No. 6, of the Frank Reade Library, entitled:
“FRANK READE, JR., WITH HIS NEW STEAM MAN CHASING A GANG OF ’RUSTLERS;’ or,
Wild Adventures in Montana.”