The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-13
csAprER XVII.
lr surrise ouleh.


bad been carried frOrn the uiaSesAits .
operating table in the eorau,tSsSry 70 I
Williams cot In the OrfAce shack.
How about Il. DSey- asked the
raine cwrer bluntly.
The surgeon shook his head do1hs,
fully.
y can't say. Hell be rather lucky
IL he doesn't make II. wont her
Starbuck regneInhered that the dos
tor had come cut in the auto witt the
police captain and the two plain
/ clothes men-
~Hackerman has been tSIkinsT- he
Qucrisd.
The surgeon nodded. "He told me
On the way Out. IL were In Smiths
place. I'd rather pass out with bull.
let in my lung. Wouldn't your
Starbrck WAS frowning souylH
Suppose you make IL case 81 suS-
pended Judgment. Doc" he suggested
The few OF US here who know any
thing about Il are giving John the
benefit oS the doubt. They'll have to
show me. and half dozen % Us. be
fore they can send him over the read"
"He knew they were af(er himY
"Sure thing: and he had all the
chance he needed 10 make his get
away. He was shot while he was
trying TO get between and stop the
war and keep others from getting
killed"
Its q pity" said the surgeon. slanc-
ing across at the police captain 70
whom Colonel Baldwin was appealing.
They'll put him In the hospital cell
AT the Jail. and that will cost him
whatever slender chance he might 9TH
erwlse have to pull through"
Starbuck looked up quickly. Tell
'em he can't be moved. Doe Dam" he
urged suddenly. And then: You're
Dick Maxwell's family physician. and
Colonel Dexter's. and mine. Surely
you can do that much for usY'
II can. and will." said the surgeon
. promptly.
Three days after the wholesale ar
rest at the dam. brewster gossip had
fairly outworn itself telling and re
l telling the story OF how tine High Line
| charter had been saved: OF how Craw'
ford Stanton's bold ruse Of hiring an
! ex-traln-robber 10 inpersonate fed
p eral-court officer had fallen through
! leaving Stanton and his confederates
!. ruthlessly abandoned by the un
J, named principals, languishing bailless
4 In jaIl; OF how Smith, the hero Of al
e these occasions. was still lying at thu
! point OF death in the Office shack al
s the construction camp, and David Kin
zie, once more In keen pursuit OF tbs
n loaves and fishes, was comhing th'
5 market for odd shares OF the stock
$ which was now climbing swiftly ou
(: OF reach. But at this climax OF ex
n haustion--or satiety-came a distinct
i ly new set OF thrills, more titillatine
: IL possible, than all the others com
e bined
II was on the morning OF the thir'
day that the Herald announced tn
return OF Mr.. Josiah Richlander from
\ the Topaz; and In the marriage no
\ tees OF the same Issue the breakfast
table readers Of the newspaper
learned that the multimillionaire'
daughter had been privately marrie'
the previous evening to Mr.. Tucke
Jlbbey. Two mining spectators wer
chuckllng over the news In the Hophr
House grill when third man cam
In TO join them.
"what's the joker" queried the new
conner; and when he was shown tn
marriage item, he nodded gravel,
'.That's all right; but the Herald ma
didn't get the full flavor OF II. II wa
sort OF runaway match. II seems
the fond parent wasn't invited or cor
suited"
~ don't see that the fond parent m
any kick coming" said the one VIII
had sold Jibbey promising prospeS
hole on Topaz mountain two days eal
lier. -The young fellows got all kind
OF money"
81 know the land broker put II
"But they're whispering Ii around tha
~ Mr.. Rlchlander had other plans 10
81 his daughter. They also say that jill
Up hey wouldn't stay to face the music
that he left on the midnight train las
VI night few hours after the wedding
" so as not to be among those preser
q when the old man should blow in"
ne "whatf"-in a chorus of two-'lei
his wife?"
III "Thnt's what they say. But that
only one Of the new and startlin
10 things that isn't In the morning paper
ir Have you heard about Smith,
" haven't you been up long enough yeti
ie ~ heard yesterday that he was b
81 ginning to mend" replied the brcal
u faster on the left.
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