Don't mind me if--I--cry, boys.

You would, too, if you was me." As the committee departed soon after without any plan of action arising from the interview with the dejected marshal, it may be well to acquaint the reader with the history of the abduction, as told by Roscoe Crow and his bosom friend, Bud Long, thoroughly expurgated.
According to instructions, no one in the Crow family mentioned the strange disappearance of Elsie Banks to Rosalie.

Nor was she told of the pursuit by the marshal and his posse.

The girl, far from being afflicted with a fever, really now kept in her room by grief over the departure of her friend and companion.

She was in tears all that night and the next day, suffering intensely in her loss.