“I passed him a ten-dollar bill.
“‘Keep within sight of us,’ I says. ‘We may need you any minute.’
“He nodded and smiled, an’ away we went.
“‘I’m wonderin’ how we’re agoin’ to get the money,’ I says, havin’ told Dan about it.
“‘I’ll take it away from him,’ says Dan.
“‘That wouldn’t do,’ says I.
“‘Why not?’
“‘Why not?’ says I. ‘You wouldn’t want to be arrested for highway robbery. Then, too, we must think o’ Lizzie. Poor girl! It’s agoin’ to be hard on her, anyhow. I’ll try a bluff. It’s probable that he’s worked this game before. If so, we can rob him without violence an’ let him go.’
“Dan grew joyful as we sped along.
“‘Lizzie is mine,’ he says. ‘She wouldn’t marry him now.’