"What can this be?" she exclaimed, turning the missive over and over in her hands as though trying to learn its contents through the cover.
"Open it and find out," smiled Jesse. "I don't believe it's loaded."
Mechanically Daisy obeyed, drawing forth a carefully folded piece of paper.
"Why, it's the mortgage on Topsey and it says 'satisfied in full of all demands' on it. This is more of your work, sir," she cried, raising her happy face to the great outlaw's.
"So I fancy. I thought the old duffer would listen to reason. And now that everything's all right, we must go."
Finding that her entreaties were of no avail, the girl insisted upon their taking lunch with them and after Jesse had showed her about some medicines he left for the sick woman, with many expressions of her gratitude for their surprising generosity, Daisy watched them till they were lost in the darkness of the night.
For several rods the two outlaws walked on in silence, then the chief exclaimed:
"I sure am glad we happened to strike that house."
Attributing the statement to his sympathetic nature, Jim praised his bounty.