Gus generously forebore to speak, though he felt that he was the least to blame; and Frank, after eating a bit of snow to moisten his dry lips, said, handsomely,-- "Now, don't you worry, old man.

I'll pay the damages, for it was my fault.

Joe will dodge, but I won't, so make your mind easy.
"We sha'n't hear the last of this in a hurry," responded Gus, relieved, yet anxious, as he thought of the reprimand his father would give him.
"I hope mother won't hear of it till I tell her quietly myself.

She will be so frightened, and think I'm surely smashed up, if she is told in a hurry;" and Frank gave a shiver, as all the danger he had run came over him suddenly.
"I thought we were done for when we saw that train.

Guess we should have been if you had not had your wits about you.