Besides, he was in an all-fired hurry to leave before the rest o' the party come back, an' while I was bringin' out the horse, he heard 'em laughin'.

They wasn't in sight yet, but they was makin' a lot o' noise.

One o' the girls had stepped on a snake an' was squealin' loud enough to hear her two miles off." "And Gaylord left before any of them saw him ?" The boy nodded.

"He got off all right.

'You forgot to pay for your horse,' I yelled after him, and he threw me fifty cents and it landed in the watering-trough." This ended his testimony.
Several members of the picnic party were next called upon, and nothing very damaging to Radnor was produced.