If they could work upon his feelings sufficiently to induce him to give up the idea of trapping the quails, well and good.

Godfrey might have the meal and bacon, and welcome.

But if David was still obstinate and refused to listen to reason, they would punish him by putting the officers of the law on his father's track.
"It is a splendid plan and it will work, I know it will," exclaimed Bob, in great glee.

"It will be some time before my appointment--those folks in Washington move very slowly--and while I am waiting for it, I may as well make seventy-five dollars.

I can get my shot-gun with it, and spend my three hundred and sixty for the other things I need." Bob slept but little that night for excitement, and dreaming about the glorious things that might be in store for him, kept him awake.
He and Lester were up long before the sun, and as soon as they had eaten breakfast, they mounted their horses and rode off in the direction of Godfrey Evans's house.