"Wait a moment, please!" Helen
hurried back to Chapin, while Gallagher muttered something like
"I ain't takin' no orphan's money."
"Jack!" (the girl was trembling with excitement), "you told me on
the way over that you had five hundred dollars with you. Let me
have it, please. I'll give you my check when we get home."
"My dear girl, you aren't going to--bet it?"
"Yes, I am."
"Don't do that!"
For answer she snatched the pocket-book from his hand.
"Mr. Gallagher!" she called.
Skinner watched from afar. "Some class to that gal!" was what he
said, which proved that he was a person not wholly without
sentiment.
CHAPTER XVII
Speed leaped down from the buckboard in which Carara had driven
him and Glass over to the Centipede corral.
"I told you to jump out when we crossed that bridge," was Larry's
reproach to him. "You could have broke your arm. Now--it's too
late."
But Speed joined his friends with the most cheerful of greetings.
They responded nervously, shocked at his flippant assurance.
"This, Mr. Speed, is the scene of your defeat!" Gallagher made
the introduction.
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