Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-22
CHAPTER xxxvilra
AZ tha Door

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she woke in dream Of hoofs beat
Ing at her brain. Distracted words
Nell from her lips, and when she
opened her swollen eyes and saw those
about her she could only scream.
Marion had called up the stable, blu,
the stablemen could only tell her that
Dicksie's horse, In terrible condition
had come In riderless. While Barn
hardt, the railway surgeon, al the
bedside administered restorativea
Marion talked with him Of Dicksie'i
sudden and mysterious coming. Dick
sic. lying In pain and quite conscious
hsas3 all, but, unable to explain
moaned in her helplessness. sAt
heard Marion at length tell the doctor
that McCloud was out Of town, ant
the news seemed to bring back hei
senses. Then. rising in the bed. whit
the surgeon and Marion coaxed hei
to lie down, she clutched at their armi
and, looking from one to the other
told her story. When It was done
she swooned, but she woke to heal
voices at the door Of the shop. She
heard as If she dreamed, but at the
| door the words were dread reality.
Seinclair had made good his word, and
had come out of the storm with sum-
mons upon Marion and 1t was the sur
geon 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 logged self-control; and he was
standing, much to his annoyance, in
the glare of an arc-light that swung
across the street in front Of the shop.
He was we'll aware that no such light
had ever swung within q block Of the
shop before and in it he saw the hand
Of Whispering Smith. The light was
unexpected, Barnhardt was surprise,
and even the falling snow, which pro-
tected him from being seen 20 feet
away, angered him. He asked CURLY
who was i'll, and without awaiting an
answer asked for his wife.
A0 SUI 6SOn CyCO AAlA COA0Ays
clair, what are you doing in Medicine
Bend? Have you come to surrender
ourself?"
Surrender myself? Yes, I'm ready
any time to surrender myself. Take
me along yourself, Barnhardt, II you
think I've done worse than any man
AswOuld that has been bounded as I've
been heunded. want to see my wife,"
Sinclair, you can't see your wife,"
Whats the matter-is she sick?"
EMO, but you can't see her"
''Who says can't see herr"
II 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. mo, won't get out of
this door. Shoot, you coward! Shoot
an unarmed man. You will not live
to get 100 feet away. This place is
watched for you; you could not have
got within 100 yards Of it tonight ex-
cept for this snow" Barnhardt pointed
through the storm. Sinclair, you will
hang in the courthouse square, and
win take the last beat of your pulse
with these fingers, and when pro-
!. pcunce you dead they will cut you
ldown. You want to see your wife.
lXou want to kill her. Don't lie; you
'Nant to kill her. You were heard to
say as much tonight at the Dunning
ranch. You were watched and tracked,