"You-uns war so sharp that I judged I'd make yer think ye didn't know so much ez you thought, an' I fixed it up ter have another person show up in my place."
"I see. But who was this other person?"
"Dummy. He is no bigger than I, an' he is a good mimic. He rode jes' like me."
"Begorra! he did thot!" nodded Barney. "It's mesilf thot wur chated, an' thot's not aisy."
"You are a shrewd little girl," declared Frank; "and you are dead lucky to escape with your life after getting Miller's bullet. But Miller won't trouble you more."
Mrs. Kenyon rose and went into the hut, while Barney lazily strolled down to the creek, leaving Frank and Kate alone.
Half an hour later, as he was coming back, the Irish lad heard Kate saying:
"I know I'm igerent, an' I'm not fitten fer any educated man. Still, you an' I is friends, Frank, an' friends we'll allus be."
"Friends we will always be," said Frank, softly.
After this little more was said.
It was not long before our friends left the locality, this time bound for Oklahoma, Utah and California. What Frank's adventures were in those places will be told in another volume, entitled, "Frank Merriwell's Bravery."
"We are well out of that," said Frank, as they journeyed away. "Am I not right, Barney?"
"Sure, Frankie, sure!" was Barney's answer. "To tell the whole thruth, me b'y, ye're nivver wrong, nivver!"
And Barney was right, eh, reader?
THE END.
FRANK MERRIWELL'S BRAVERY
CHAPTER III. A THRILLING ACCUSATION.
CHAPTER IV. FOR LIFE AND HONOR.
CHAPTER VI. SOLOMON SHOWS HIS NERVE.
CHAPTER IX. THE ASSAULT ON THE JAIL.
CHAPTER XI. BLACK HARRY APPEARS.
CHAPTER XII. A CHANCE IN A THOUSAND.
CHAPTER XIII. A THRILLING RESCUE.
CHAPTER XIV. WALTER CLYDE'S STORY.
CHAPTER XV. PROFESSOR SEPTEMAS SCUDMORE.
CHAPTER XVI. THE MAD INVENTOR.
CHAPTER XX. MOUTH OF THE CAVE.
CHAPTER XXII. PROFESSOR SCUDMORE RETURNS.
CHAPTER XXIII. LAST OF THE DANITES.
CHAPTER XXIV. YELLOWSTONE PARK.
CHAPTER XXVIII. VANISHING OF LITTLE FAY.
CHAPTER XXX. SEARCH FOR THE TRAIL.
CHAPTER XXXI. A FIGHT WITH GRIZZLIES.
CHAPTER XXXV. A PECULIAR GIRL.
CHAPTER XXXVI. FRIENDS AND FOES.
CHAPTER XXXVII. BOY SHADOWERS.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. "QUEER" MONEY.
CHAPTER XLII. OVER THE PRECIPICE.