And I expect to go again, to-nigh! A young fellow about your size is going to act a pilot, and get me to Little Lost as quick as possible.

It'll be daylight at that." "If you got another day coming, it better be before daylight we get there," Eddie retorted glumly.

H hesitated, turned his horse and led the way down the slope, angling down away from the well-travelled trail over the summit of Gold Gap.
That hesitation told Bud, without words, how tenuous was his hold upon Eddie.

He possessed sufficient imagination to know that his own carefully discipline past, sheltered from actual contact with evil, had given him little enough by which to measure the soul of a youth like Eddie Collier.
How long Eddie had supped and slept with thieves and murderers, Bud could only guess.

From the little that Marian had told him, Eddie's father had been one of the gang.