"Come! It's only silly sentiment," he urged.

"You can't feel bad about it after all this time.

Why, child, it's five years!" She laughed rather shakily.

"I am a big fool, aren't I, Jack?
Yet--somehow--do you know--I thought he meant to come back." "Not he!" declared Jack.

"Catch Buckskin Bill putting his head back into the noose when once he had got away! He's not quite so simple as that, my dear.