Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-12-06
copyrighted. 1900. by the J. B. Lippine0H Col
CHAPTER xvIII.-CoNr1Nupp.

2 Nearly an hour was consumed in
trying to convince him he must or at
least, might be mistaken, but to no
purpose. He mentioned card photo
graph of Foster in ranch costume that
HEonld convince the gentlemen, he
Thought, that there was no such very
strong resemblance, and a note was
written to Miss Porter asking her to
find and send the picture in question.
1t came, cabinet photo of a tall, slen-
der, swell-built young fellow with dark
eyes and brows and thick, curving
iashes, and oval, attractive face.
despite its boyishpess, and nine men
~4out of ten who saw and compared it
with the face of the dead declared 1t
Hooked as though it, had been taken
for the latter perhaps a year or SO
agone.s Ray had hurt his own case,
and, when excused to return to his
sisters side, went forth into the gath
ering twilight stricken with the con-
seriousness that he was believed to
have lied in hopes of averting scandal
from that sisters name.
And on the morrow with that post
mortem,s so insisted on by Brick, no
uonger delayed, the dead again lay
pInutely awaiting the final action of the
.civif-military authorities, and to the
surprise of the officers and guards,
before going. to the daily routine that
Kept him from early morn till late at
might in his beleaguered office, Dray-
xon came and bowed his gray head and
Gazed Nvith somber eyes into the sleep
.fng features now before him.
A pinched and tired look was COM
&ng over the waxen face that had been
$50, calm and placid, as though in utter
<veariness over this senseless delay.
Drayton had been told of young Rays
almost astounding declaration, and
officers of the law half expected him
%oIuzlle some adverse comment there
on, but he did not. Alert correspond
sents, amazed. to see the corps COM
anander at such a place and SO far from
Hhe Ayuntamiento, surrounded him as
S1e axOuld have retaken his seat in his
carriage, and clamored for something
kas coming from him in the way of an
expression of opinion, which, with
grave courtesy, the general declined
$50 give, but could not prevent appear
AnE a week later in Il thousand papers
1n a dozen different forms-ferried
over to Hong-Kong by the Shotgun OF
some other ship, and cabled thence tC
Svaiting Christendom.
Drayton had his own reasons fol
oNishing to see the remains. then Vim
ton, and later Ray, and as his move
Encnts were closely followed, the wit.
of the correspondents were sorely
taxed. But the examination was to bs
resumed at nine. A rumor was run
ming wild that Miss Ray herself wa,
to be summoned to appear, and Dray
ton had to be dropped in favor of {
more promising sensation.
1t began with dreary surgical tech
-nicalities. The heavy bullet hai
traversed the ascending aorta ''peal
its bifurcation," said Brick, wht
though only an autopsical adjuact
svas permitted to speak for his as
sociates. Death, said he, had resultet
from shock and was probably instan
taneous. No other cause could beeat
tributed. No other wound was dis
covered. No marks of scuff1e excep
~sso!ne unimportant scratches" on tn,
shoulder. The bullet was found t,
weigh exactly the same as those o
the .unexploded cartridges in poo
&iaidie's priced revolver, and though
Brick would gladly have kept tn
floor and told very much more, tn
tprovOSJ-marShal as gladly got rid o
him, for, despite the unwillingnes
of the medical officers at the Cuarte
de Meysic, Connolly had beel
strundled down to Ermita in a spring,
ambulance and was patiently await
4ng his turn.
The moment his coming was az
snouneed, Connolly was ushered imam
Brick shut off short. O
A nurse and doctor were with tn
sturdy little Irishman, and heenee6
ed but brief instruction as to wha
was wanted. Taken to the tresta
and hidden to look upon the face c
the deceased and say, if he Gouls
who it was, Connolly looked long an
earnestly, and then turned feebly bu
calmly to the attentive array.
I'll. 1t wasn't that this looks muc