He told the officers of the law that he would take Bill out to the ranch, if they would let him off. The humor of the situation was too great to be resisted, and he was put into the wagon alongside of Joe. and sent out to Snake creek.

I cannot say what brought about the transformation in Nerud's sentiment, but the fact is, that a day or two later, Bill Bowen arrived on the Burlington with a paid in advance passage from Angora, and he did not have a cent when he left Scottsbluff.

A man is not to be censured if he changes his mind. Wise men have that privilege -- and no one would blame any man, who in an impulse of sympathy or sentiment should pick up a bug, if he should decide, when he came to an analytical study of the insect, that he had no further use for it. A kind heart only would take the trouble of returning it to the spot from which he had taken it.

Pearson's ranch was one of the later places on Snake creek, and he needed more range and came into the hills about three miles north of the west end of Lake Alice, where he established a camp -- as a sub-station for the ranch. These sub-stations consist usually of a well and windmill and a set of watering tanks. Sometimes a small shack and corral is added. This sub-station of the Pearson ranch was the only watering place between Snake creek and the' North Platte river.