San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-05-04

physician who had rescued Dan Riggs
by from the waters of Drywood would
permit him to leave the room.
You are my first patient" he said to
Dan with a smile. land | am too jeal-
GUS of my reputation as physician to
allow you to make yourself worse by
going out before you are in condition
to do so safely. You have had narrow
escape from an attack of brain fever"
This had been said in answer to Dams
appeal to be allowed to return to Fort
Scott
Dan found in the young physician a
most agreeable companion. and warm
friendship sprang up between the two.
1t filled Dan with anxiety as he thought
of how matters might be going at the
Fort. That the plotters would be busily
at work in carrying out their evil plans
he felt sure, and the thought worried
him more than he could express.
The letter to Captain Parker given
him by the paymaster was still safe in
his breast pocket, but the money he had
received was missing On paying for
his breakfast at the restaurant on the
morning of his abduction he had been
compelled to have the fifty dollar bill
changed. He had placed the change in
his pocketbook which he carried in his
trousers pocket, but now he found that
pocketbook and all was gone, but whether
it had been taken from him by his alb
ductors while he was unconscious in the
carriage or had been dropped from his
pocket while in the stream. he could not
tell ..u.t ,s.,..
Its gone at any rate" thought Dan.
land it's no use to fret over it."
IL have not told You why | am SO
anxious to get to Fort Scott" said Dan
one evening when he was able to sit up.
"You have business there that needs
your attention | suppose, replied the
young physician. = think you will be
able to travel h, tomorrow and I'll take
You up to the Fort. -...
Thank yon. responded Dan. You
are right: | have got business at the
Fort, and very important at that"
He then gave an account of the two
strangers stopping at the inn-of his
oyerhearing their plot to defraud some
one of an estate. He then related his
adventure with the robbers: his capture
by them and Imprisonment in the under
ground chamber; of the strangers visit
TO the lone woman at the cabin and of
his discovery that the parties to be de-
frauded were himself and mother; of
his escape from the cabin and arrival at
Fort Scott; of his abduction by the plot
tiers and the accident in the Drywood
ford which came so near costing him his
life.
"You know the rest" he said in con-
clusion. The plotters are evidently in
Scott at this moment endeavoring to
carry their plans into execution, so you
can understand why am so impatient"
Oliver Brown gave vent to a prolonged
whistle
1T beats anything | ever heard out
side of book" he said in establishment.
why didn't You tell Inc this before,
| and I'd have got some one to stay with
| you and would have gone to the Fort 10
| look after matters for your
| DO you think tomorrow will he too
late? asked Dan in an anxious Tone
| I'VE can't tell. though hardly think
F, so. 1t requires time to transact business
of that kind, and it may be that they
will be afraid To proceed with their
plans. now that you have escaped them"
That might be the case if they should
think | had escaped" remarked Dan:
but | am convinced that they think me
dead, else they would have made some
attempt to recapture me"
That places the matter in different
light" answered the young physician.
ii think we had better start for the Fort
as soon as it is light tomorrow"
lyon are right, answered Dan. Il
am anxious to be off. There is no tell
ing what may happen"
1t was only little after eight o'clock
on the following morning when Dan and
his new found friend drove into Fort
Scott Dan proceeded directly to the
military barracks, where he found Cap
tain Parker
When Dan presented the letter given
him by the paymaster the captain shook
hands warmly with the youth
81 am glad to meet you. my boy" he
said cordially. This letter tells me that
you have had some most dangerous ad.
ventures with the guerrilla robbers and
rendered some valuable service to the
paymaster and his escort"
| Il have certainly passed through some