They both understood what that feeble gesture meant. It told much
of the fine heart of Elizabeth--that she was able to smile at the girl
and forgive her for having stolen again what she had restored.
It was the break-up of the Pollard gang, the sudden disaffection of their
newest and most brilliant member. Joe himself was financed by Elizabeth
Cornish and opened a small string of small-town hotels.
"Which is just another angle of the road business," he often said,
"except that the law works with you and not agin you."
But he never quite recovered from the restoration of the Lewison money on
which Elizabeth and Terry both insisted. Neither did Denver Pete. He left
them in disgust and was never heard of again in those parts. And he
always thereafter referred to Terry as "a promising kid gone to waste."
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