The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-08
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY. AUGUST s, 1909

voices at the door of the shop She
heard as if she dreamed, but at the door
the words We're dread reality. Sinclair
had made good his word, and had come
out of the storm with a summons upon
Marion, and il was the surgeon who
threw open the door and saw Sinclair
standing in the snow.
No man in Medicine Bend knew Sin
clair more thoroughly or feared him
less than Barnhardt. No man could /
better meet him or speak to him with /
less OF hesitation. Sinclair, as he /
faced Barnhardt, was not easy in spite /
of his dogged self-cOntrol; and he was 4
standing much to his annoyance, in 4
the glare of an arc-hght that swung 4
across the street in front Of the shop. /
He was well aware that no such light /
had ever swung within q block of the 1
shop before, and in 1t he saw the hand /
of Whispering Smith. The light was
unexpected. BaTnhardt WAS d surprise, /
and even the falling snow, which pro-
| tected him from being seen twenty feet 1
away. angered him. He asked curtly /
who was i'll, and without awaiting an !
answer asked for his wife.
/ The surgeon eyed him coldly. Sin |
/ clair. what are you doing in Medicine /
/ Bend? Have you come to surrender /
YOURSELF"
Surrender myself? Yes. I'm ready |
any time to surrender myself. Take me |
/ along yourself, BaTnhardt, if you think /
/ I've done verse than any man would /
that has been bounded as I've been /
| bounded. I want to see my wife"
Sinclair, you can't see your wife"
Whats tho matters she sick?'
! No bat YOU can't see her.
Who says l can't see herr"
Il say So"
Sinclair swept the ice furiously
from his beard and his right hand fell
to his hip as he stepped back. You've
turned against me. too, have you, you
gray-haired wolf? Can't see her! Get
out Of that door"
The surgeon pointed his finger at the
murderer. NO. I won't get out Of this
door Shoot, you coward Shoot an
unaTmed man. You will not live to &c:
100 feet away. This place is watched for
you: you could not have got within 100
yards of it tonight except for this
snow" Barnhardt pointed through the
STERN Sinclair, you will hang in the
| court house square, and I will take the
last beat of your pulse with these fin
gers, and when / pronounce you dead
| they will cut you down. You want TO
see your wife. You want to Kill her.
Don't lie; you want to kill her, You
were heard to say as much tonight at
the Dunning ranch. You were watched
and tracked and you are expected AMI
looked for here. Your best friends have
gone back on you. Ay, curse again and
over again, but that will not put Ed
Banks on his feet
Sinclair stamped with frenzied oaths
You're too hard on me-" he cried
clenching his hand, Il say you're too
hard. You've heard one side of it, Is
that the way you put judgment on a
man that's got no friends left because
they start a new lie on him every day?
| Who is it that's watching me? Let
them stand out like men in the Open
If they want me, let them come ike
men and take mel"
Sinclair, this storm gives you
chance to get away; take it. Bad as
you are, there are men in Medicine
Bend who knew you when you were
man. Don't stay here for some OF
them to sit on the jury that hangs you.
If you can get away, get away. If J
were your frienG-and God knows
whom you can call friend in Medicine
Bend tonight couldn't say more
Get away before it is too late
He was never again seen alive in
Medicine Bend. They tracked him
next day over every foot of ground
he had covered. They found where
he had left his spent horse and where
afterward he had got the fresh one.
| They learned how he had eluded ali
the picketing planned for precisely
such a contingency, got into the
Wickiup got upstairs and burst open
the very door of McClOud's ROOM But
Dicksie had on her side that night one
greater than her invincible will or her
faithful horse. McCloud was 200 miles
away.
r Barnnardt lost no time in telephoniag
+ the Wickiup that Sinclair was in town,
: but within an hour, while the two wom-
en- were still under the surgeons pro-
lection. a knock at the cottage door
gave them a second fright Barnhardl
, answered the summons. He opened the
door and. as the man outside paused to
shake the snow off his hat, the surgeon
caught him by the shoulder and dragged
into the house Whispering Smith.
Picking the icicles from his hair
Smith listened TO all that Barnhardt
said, his eyes rowing meantime over
everything within the room and men,
! tally over many things outside it. He
! congratulated Barnhardt, and when
Marion came into the room he apollo
! gized for the snow he had brought in.
I Dicksie heard his voice and cried out
! from the bedroom They could not
keep her away, and she ran out to
! | catch his hands and plead with him
not to go away. He tried to assure
, her that the danger was over; that
I guards were now outside everywhere
! and would be until morning. But Dick
: sic chung to him and would take no
refusal.
! Whispering Smith looked at her in
4 ! amazement and in admiration You
! are captain tonight, Miss Dicksie. by
E heaven. If you say the word I'll lie
here or a rug till morning. But that
man will not be back tonight. You are
a queen. If I had mountain girl that
> would 10 as much as that for me I
7 would"
, What would you do?" asked Marion
"Say goodbye to this accursed coun-
: try forever
CHAPTER xxx.
Closing In.