The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-13
FINANCIAI
THE First Bridgeport National Bank
CORNER MAIN AND BANK STREETS


me. I could scarcely realize that the danger was over.
 hadn't been paying much attention to Dr. Kirby while the colonel was making that grandstand play of hfs'n and getting away with it. Dr. Kirby was setting in his chair with his head sort of sunk on his chest guess he was having a hard time himself to l realize that ail the danger was past.
 pr. Kirby turns around toward the colonel.
 'fYou have saved my hfe," he-says, getting up out of his chair, like he had a notion to step over and thank him fur it, but was somehow not quite sure how that would be took.
 The colonel looks at him silent fur a second. and then he says, without smiling:
 ''Do you hatter yourself it was be- cause think it worth anything?"
 The doctor don't answer, and then the colonel says:
 ''Has it occurred to you that may have saved 1t because I want il? ?"
 Tom says Dr. Kirby, really pug zled, to judge from his actions, 'I don't understand what makes you say you have the right to take my life.''
 ''Dave, where is my sister buried P" asts Colonel Tom.
 'EBuried?" says Dr. Kirby. 'cMy God, Tom! Is she dead?''
 And they looked at each other, both wonderfzed and trying to understand. And it busted on me all at oncet who them two men really was. I orter knowed it sooner. But I didn't piece things together like I orter done.
 It wasn't until Colonel Tom Buckner called him Dave and ast him about his sister that I seen who pr. Kirby must really be.
 He was that there David Armstrong!
 And the brother of the girl he had run off with had jest saved his life. By the way he was talking, he had saved it simply because he thought he had the first call on what to do with it.
 Where is she2 asts Colonel Tom.
 "T ask you,7 says Dr. Kirby-or Da- vid Armstrong-agin.
 We'll, thinks to myself, here is where Daniel puts one acrost the plate. And breaks in:
 ''You both got another guess com ing" I says. "She ain't buried any where's. She ain't even dead She's living in a little town in Indiany call ed Athens-or she was about eighteen months ago."
 sswhat do you know about it?" says Dr. Kirby.
 Are you David Armstrong;" says I. 'fYes,' says he.
 f'WeI," I says, "you spent four or five days within stone's throw of knowed it was you and hid herself away from you.''
 Then tells them about how first happened to hear of David Armstrong and all had hearn from Martha. And how I had stayed at the Davises in Tennessee and got some more of the same story from George, the old nigger there.
 ''But, Danny says the doctor, "why didn't you tell me all this?" I was jest going to say that not knowing he was that there David Arm strong didn't think it any of his bust ness, when Colonel Tom, he says to Dr. Kirby[I mean to David Arm 1 strong:
 ''Why should you be concerned as to l her whereabouts? You ruined her life and then deserted her.' q didn't desert her," said Dr. Kirby. 'She got disgusted and left me-left | me without a chance to explain my self. AS far as ruining her life is con- l cerned, suppose that when I mar ried her.
 Married her!'' cries out the colonel 1 And David Armstrong stares at him l with his mouth open.
 My God, Tom," he says, "did you think
 And they both come to- another l standsti1l, and then they talked some more and only got more mixed up l than ever, fur the doctor thinks she l has left him, and Colonel Tom thinks l he has left her.
 'HTon," says the doctor, suppose you let me tell my story, and you'll see why Lucy left me.'' l Him and Colonel Tom had been l chums together when they weni through Princeton, it seems. He had come from Ohio in the beginning, and l his dad had had considerable money which he had enjoyed spending of it ' and when he was young feller never liked to work at nothing else It suit ed him. Colonel Tom, he was cons1d erable like him in that way. So they was good pals when they was to that school together. They both quit about the same time. A couple of years aft CT that, when they was both about | twenty-five or six years old, they TUT acrost each other accidental in New York one autumn.
 The doctor he was there f1ggering or l going to work at something or other but they was so many things to do he was finding it hard to make a choice His father was dead by that time, anG
 looking fur a job in New York the 1 way he had been doing it was awfu 1 expensive, and he was running short
 of money.
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