Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-13

niSheS him with the means to work the ruin of Louise Green. Great God Al mighty, doctor, some people are too hard and mean to be human, and old 4latchford is one of them. He's fool; ee's scoundrel; he's a brute.'' "And gould like to cane him, wouldn't %ou?' the doctor said when he had tlightly recovered from the effects of Scraggs' tumultuous and unlocked for putburst.
 "Wouldn't IF" repeated Scraggs. l"Well, just would, and I'd give him such caning as no man ever got. But here, this sort of talk is not to the point. We must act. We must hustle our selves to get old Blatchford out here. I'll send him telegram at once," and then and there Scraggs penned the mes sage, which Blatchford received the day of Aunt Mitchells explosion, | and which has been mentioned in pre- vious chapter. Calling his clerk, Scraggs sent the message off; then turn ing to the doctor, said: | ''Now, I think Blatchford will come, and it will be nearly week before he l gets here, and, in the meantime, we must manage in some way to delay l Pearson's plans. We must save the girl from him and we must keep Green out of the clutches of the law.''
 That's so," replied the doctor; ''thats so. But l don't just see how it's to be done. Perhaps, though, Pearson will not bring matters to an issue at once. Perhaps we will have plenty of time, if we only succeed in keeping our scheme quiet"
 ''I think not," said Scraggs. "I be- lieve from what information have been able to gather that he has already made his proposition to the girl. know this much: He has purchased two tickets for Denver and has arranged for Q livery rig to drive into the country tomorrow night I am confident his intention is to drive out to Greens at night and bring the girl here in a close carriage, and with her take the train for the vest
 "Then what can we do, Scraggs?'' the doctor asked. 'How can we prevent this thing in so short a time?"
 ''I don't know, I'm sure.''
 At that instant the office door was thrown open and man came breath lessly in.
 Doctor" he cried, ''come quick. Pearson has received a severe injury and needs immediate attention. have
 been all over town in search of you"
 ''Eh? Whats that?'' the doctor cried, starting up.
 The man recounted all he knew of Pearson's meeting with Paul and the encounter that followed, and ended by saying:
 ''I'm sure his leg is broken. besides other serious injuries.'' ''I wish to Heaven it had been his neck instead of his leg," cried Scraggs. "Aye," said tho doctor aside tc Scraggs, "but . leg is better than
 nothing, and if we can't have what we want we must take what we can get tAre you going to him?" Scraggs
 asked.
 "Yes, indeed. You wait here an hou1 or 50 and I'll see you again. With that the doctor went out anc
 down the street to Pearson's room. He found Pearson in 2 semi-unconscious condition, and proceeded to make ar
 examination of his injuries. At first he was inclined to treat them rather , lightly, but on second thought he s changed his mind and his face took or , a grave air and he shook his head du . biously.
 l ''Is he badly hurt, doctor?" some one asked.
 Bad enough to keep him in bed fol I several days, sure," the doctor replied
 "We must splint and bandage this liml l and he must be kept perfectly quiet fol 7 the present"
 8 Accordingly the limb was duly ar
 ranged, the bruises about the fac, . dressed, and, after again repeating hi a injunctions in regard to keeping the pa | sA4 ~Il t and returned to Scraggs. :, tered the office, ''we've got a goot :. chance to carry out our plan. We'v' l. got Pearson laid up with broken leg l. and If we can get old Blatchford ou n here before he gets up and about we'r, I all right"
 Great heavens, man! we can cer
 tainly do that. Blatchford ought to ge
 here inside of six days, and I shoul,
 think it would take broken leg sev eral weeks to heal" $ ''Yes, ordinarily it does take severa r weeks, but in this case it won't" | "Won't? Why not?" Because" and the doctor advance,
 and sunk his voice to whisper, "be
 cause, Scraggs, there ain't any broker
 leg in this case"
 "What?" cried Scraggs. II don : catch your meaning" II mean that Pearson's leg is no | broken. He has sprained it pretty SC | verely, that is all but as the peopl l up there thought it was broken de cided to let the impression prevail an
 SO I splintered it up and left it SC J Don't you see, if we can keep him i
 bed under the belief that his limb
 broken it gives us chance to save tn
 girl until Blatchford comes.'
 II see, I see," cried Scraggs, as h
 slapped himself and fairly roared wit D. laughter. By George, doctor, but tha i'd is the best thing ever heard of, an ," you deserve a medal for it. I'll put yo
 against the world when it comes t G. scheming," and again Scraggs' feeling st got the better of him and he burst ou Is into another roar of laughter.
 "Now, if I can keep Pearson in be l La