Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-04-11

"Well, what is the matter, then?"
Hawk rose.
eff you will be patient little while
longer, I'll go to the wire and try to
find out. 1 am as much in the dark as
you are"
This last was not strictly true. Hawk
had a telegram in his pocket which
was causing him more uneasiness than
all the rasping criticisms of the New
York attorney, and he was re-reading
it by the light of the corridor bracket
when young man sprang from the
ascending elevator and hurried to the
door of the parlor suite Hawk COL
Jared his Mercury before he could rap
on the door.
"Well?" he queried sharply.
Its just as you suspected-what
Mr.. Hendricks telegram limited at. l
met him at the station and couldn't
do thing with him.
''Where has he gomez"
''To the same old place."
you followed him?"
''Sure. That is what kept me so
long"
Hawk hung upon his decision for
the barest fraction of second. Then
he gave his orders concisely.
Hunt up Doctor Macquoid and get
him out to the clubhouse as quick as
you can. Tell him to bring his hypo-
dermic. I'll be there with all the help
he'll need" And when the young man
was gone Hawk snfOte the air with a
clenched fist and called down the Black
Curse of Shielygh, or it's modern equiv
alent, on all the fates subversive of
well-laid plans.
A quarter of an hour later. on the
upper floor of the clubhouse at the
Gentlemen's Driving park, four men
burst in upon fifth, huge figure.
crouching in corner like wild beast
at bay. A bottle and a tumbler stood
on the table under the hanging lamp:
and with the crash of breaking glass
which followed the mad-bull rush of
the giant, the reek of French brandy
filled the room.
Hold him still, if you can, and pull
up that sleeve" 1t was Macquoid who
spoke, and the three apparitors,
| breathing hard, sat upon the PROSTATE
| man and barred his arm for the physi-
| clan. When the apomorphia began
| to do its work there was a struggle
of another sort, out of which emerged
pallid and somewhat stricken rein
| carnation of the governor.
Falkland is waiting at the hotel
and he and MacFarlane can't get to-
gether," said Hawk, tersely, when the
patient was fit to listen otherwise
We shouldn't have disturbed you. It's
all day with the scheme if you can't
show up"
The governor groaned and passed his
hand over his eyes.
Get me into my clothes-Johnson
has the grip-and give me all the time
you can," was the sulIen rejoinder.
and in due course the Honorable Jas
per G. Bucks, clothed upon and in his
right mind, was enabled to keep his
appointment with the New York at.
torney at the Mid-Continent hotel
But first came the whipping-in of
MacFarlane. Bucks went alone to the
| judges room on the floor above tho
| parlor suite. 1t was now near mid
| night, but MacFarlaue had not gone m
bed. He was spare man, with thin
hair craving rapidly at the temples
] and care-worn face; the face of a
man whose tasks or responsibilities.
or both, have overmatched him. He
was walking the floor with his head
down and his hands-thin, nerveless
hands they were-tightly locked be-
hind him, when the governor entered.
For large man the Honorable Jas
per was usually able to handle his
weight admirably: but now he chung
to the door-knob until he could launch
himself at chair and be sure of hit
ting it.
| What's this Hawks telling me
about you, MacFarlane?" he demand
ed, frowning portentously.
Il don't know what he has told Won.
But it is too fragrant, Bucks: I can't
do it, and that's all there is about
it." The protest was feebly fierce, and
there was the snarl of baited animal
in the tone.