After that we would clear out and get away to some of the far out stations, where chaps like ourselves always made to when they wanted to keep dark.

We might have the luck of other men that we had known of, and never be traced till the whole thing had died out and been half-forgotten.

Though we didn't say much to each other we had pretty well made up our minds to go straight from this out.

We might take up a bit of back country, and put stock on it with some of the money we had left.

Lots of men had begun that way that had things against them as bad as us, and had kept steady, and worked through in course of time.