I was all right there, and ready to fight; but now it's over and we're well out of it, I feel just as I did when the cart tipped up and all the baskets come down atop of you." "I am glad you feel like that," I said.
"Why ?" he cried sharply.
"Because it makes me feel that I was not such a terrible coward after all." "But you were," he said, giving me a curious look.

"Oh, yes: about as big a coward as ever I see." I did not understand why I was so very great a coward, but he did not explain, and I trudged on by him.
"I say, what would you have done if I hadn't come ?" "I don't know," I said.

"I suppose they would have let me go at last.
They got all my money." "They did ?" "Yes," I said dolefully; "and then there's the rope.

What will Mr Brownsmith say ?" "Nothin' at all," said Ike.
"But he will," I cried again.
"No he won't, because we'll buy a new one 'fore we goes back." "I thought of that," I said, "but I've no money now." "Oh, all right! I have," he said.

"We may think ourselves well out of a bad mess, my lad; and I don't know as we oughtn't to go to the police, but we haven't no time for that.