Of course, he called him a "keerless feller," and read him several long lectures, illustrating them by incidents drawn from his own experience.
He related the story of Frank's adventures with the robber every time he could induce any one to listen to it, and ever afterward called him "the boy that fit that ar' Greaser." Old Bob Kelly beamed benevolently upon him every time they met, and more than once told his companion that the "youngster would make an amazin' trapper;" and that, in Dick's estimation, was a compliment worth all the rest.
Meanwhile, the country had been made exceedingly unsafe for Pierre Costello.

The neighbors had turned out in force, every nook and corner of the mountains for miles around had been searched, and a large reward offered for the robber's apprehension; but it was all in vain.

Nothing more had been heard of Pierre, and Frank hoped that he had seen him for the last time.

Fate, however, had decreed that he was to have other adventures with the highwayman..