Some one called them "the rescuing kids." But Whitey found that being a hero wasn't what it was cracked up to be.

When any one praised him he was inclined to blush, and that made him sore at himself.
But the extraordinary effect of the affair was the change in Gil Steele.
As Bill Jordan said, it had "jarred Gil loose from his meanness." The result of this jarring was that Gil presented Whitey with the iron-gray colt, with _a silver-mounted saddle and bridle_.

The neighborhood gasped at that, and gasped again when Gil gave Injun a pair of gold-mounted six-guns, with an embossed leather cartridge-belt and holsters.

You can imagine the figure Injun cut when decorated with these.

And he slept with them on.
And, pleasing to relate, Gil prospered more when he was generous than he had when he was mean.