"But are you sure you can fix it about that reward?
The man who is coming to claim it will make trouble, won't he, if he is not paid, somehow ?" "Yes, I expect he would," returned the president, thoughtfully.

"And my directors might have something to say.

And there are the Burns people and the Bankers' Association and all.

Hum-m-m!" Homer T.Ward considered the matter a few moments, then he laughed.
"I'll tell you what we will do, Auntie Sue; we will let Brian Kent pay the reward himself.

That would be fair, wouldn't it ?" Auntie Sue was sure that Brian would agree that it was a fair enough arrangement; but she did not see how it was to be managed.
Then her old pupil explained that he would pay the reward-money to the man who was coming to claim it, and thus satisfy him, and that the bank would hold the amount as a part of the debt which Brian was expected to pay.
Auntie Sue never knew that President Ward himself paid to the bank the full amount of the money stolen by Brian Kent in addition to the reward-money which he personally paid to Jap Taylor, in order to quiet him, and thus saved Brian from the publicity that surely would have followed any other course.
It should also be said here that Judy's father never again appeared in the Ozarks; at least, not in the Elbow Rock neighborhood.