He found an old bucket and asked me to fill it." "You didn't leave him with the horses!" "No, sir; but what I did was most as foolish.

I let him go and he didn't come back.

See how I was fixed?
If I'd gone into the bluff to look for him, he might have slipped out and driven off, so I stood by the beasts quite a while.

It strikes me that team wasn't his.

At last Flett rode up with another trooper.