"Well, Tod told me about this shooting business before we started, and of course I believed it.

I noticed, though, before we were away from the city very long, that there was something else on his mind, that made him very uneasy, and gave him a great deal of trouble.

He was moody and silent for hours, and it was only when he drank a great deal that he was at all lively, or seemed like his old natural self.

Finally, on the morning of the third day, I put the question fairly to him, and he then told me what he had done.

He said he and two others had robbed a bank, and that he was making his way westward.