A smile lighted up the somber face of Mr.Roylston as he looked at them.
"Often we find powerful friends when we least expect them," he said.
"As you are the worst hurt of the lot," said the Panther, "we're going to make you a bed right here by the fire.

No, it ain't any use sayin' you won't lay down on it.

If you won't we'll jest have to put you down." They spread a blanket, upon which the exhausted merchant lay, and they covered him with a serape.

Soon he fell asleep, and then Fields said to Ned and his comrades: "You fellows have done all the work, an' you've piled up such a mountain of debt against us that we can never wipe it out.

Now you go to sleep and four of us will watch.