"'Watch him!' said Douglas."
'I wish you would let him off pretty easily. You won't send him away, will you?'
'I just will,' said the man, hotly; 'and give him up to the police too.'
'Oh, please, don't do that,' Douglas, pleaded, 'to oblige me. Give him one more chance.'
Farmer Wilkins scratched his head.
'It's perfectly ridiculous,' he said; 'but there, seeing that you have got a say in the matter, so to speak, I don't know but what—'
And the cowboy gave Douglas such a grateful look that he could not help feeling that there was still some hope of his turning out all right in the end.
'You see,' Douglas afterwards explained to his father, 'I felt so awfully glad when I found that I should not have to send Bully away, that I didn't want to pay the boy out in the least. And I think it would do him more good to be forgiven than if he was sent to prison, don't you.' And Father thought it would.