His name is Bad Pete." "Pete ?" mused Tom Reade aloud.

"That's short for Peter, I suppose; not a very interesting or romantic name.

What's the hind-leg of his name ?" "Meaning his surnames" drawled the driver.
"Yes; to be sure." "I don't know that he has any surname, friend," the Colorado boy rejoined.
"Why do they call him 'Bad' ?" asked Harry, with a thrill of pleasurable expectation.
As the driver was slow in finding an answer, Tom Reade, after another look at the picturesque stranger, replied quizzically: "I reckon they call him bad because he's counterfeit." "There you go again," remonstrated Harry Hazelton.

"You'd better be careful, or Bad Pete will hear you." "I hope he doesn't," smiled Tom.

"I don't want to change Bad Pete into Worse Pete." There was little danger, however, that the picturesque-looking stranger would hear them.