If I had he'd have showed them the way to my room, and he'd have had a dead boarder this morning.

Keep right on shedding tears, you old cut-throat! I was sitting on the court-house porch, last night, and I heard every word that passed between you and the Catrockers!" "I've been suspicioning here was where they got their information right along," the sheriff commented, and slipped the handcuffs on the landlord.

Investigation proved that Jeff Hall and his friends had suddenly decided that they had no business with the bank that day, and had mounted and galloped out of town when the first shot was fired.
Which simplified matters a bit for Bud.
In Jimmy Lawton's kitchen he received his money, and when the prisoners were locked up he saved himself some trouble with the sheriff by hunting him up and explaining just why he had taken the Collier boy into custody.
"You know yourself he's just a kid, and if you send him over the road he's a criminal for life.

I believe I can make a decent man of him.

I want to try, anyway.