“That’s the only solution, Honey. He’s got to eat and have a place to hide out. It must be somebody that likes Joe too well to turn him in for the reward—somebody that don’t care about the loss of the HJ.”
“By golly, that’s right! But who could it be?”
“That’s it,” grumbled Sleepy.
“Well, he could ’a’ made out long enough to have robbed the train,” said Honey. “He’s prob’ly high-tailin’ it out of the country right now. It looks to me as though he’s about twenty-five thousand dollars ahead of the game, and a man’s a fool who never knows when he’s got enough.”
“Easy money,” said Hashknife thoughtfully. “No man ever quits takin’ easy money.”
“Yuh don’t think he’ll try it again, do yuh?” asked Honey.
“From my point of view—yeah, I think he will, Honey.”
Honey snorted and threw away his
