The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-10-12
CHAPTER XVII.
In Sunrise Gulch.

CHAPTER XVII.
In Sunrise Gulch.
William Starbuck drew the surgeon
aside after the first aid had been rem
had been carried from the makeshift
operating table in the commissary to
Williams cot in the office shack.
"How about it, Doc7" asked the
mine owner bluntly.
The surgeon shook his head doubt
fully.
Il can't say. He'll be rather lucky
If he doesn't make 1t, won't her"
Starbuck remembered that the doe
police captain and the two plain.
clothes men.
"Hackerman has been talking?" he
queried.
The surgeon nodded. "He told me
on the way out. II I were in Smiths
place, I'd rather pass out with bull
let in my lung. Wouldn't your"
Starbuck was frowning sourly
"Suppose you make 1t case of sus
pended Judgment, Doc" he suggested
''The few Of us here who know any.
thing about 1t are giving John the
benefit Of the doubt. They'll have tt
show me, and half a dozen of us, be
fore they can send him over the road
HE knew they We're after him?"
"Sure thing; and he had all the
chance he needed to 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 a pity" said the surgeon, glanc
ing across at the police captain td
whom Colonel Baldwin was appealing
''They'll put him in the hospital Gel.
at the Jail, and that will cost hin
whatever slender chance he might 9th
erwlse have to pull through"
starbuck looked up quickly. "Tel
'em he can't be moved, Doc Dan" he
urged suddenly. And then: "You're
Dick Maxwell's family physician. ant
Colonel Dexter's, and mine. Surely
you can do that much for us?'
II can, and I WILL" said the surgeon
promptly.
Three days after the wholesale ar
rest ut the dam, Brewster gossip hat
fairly outworn itself telling and re
telling the story Of how the High Line
charter had been saved; of how Craw
ford Stanton's bold ruse of hiring ar
ex-train-robber to impersonate fed
eral-court officer had fallen through
leaving Stanton and his confederates
ruthlessly abandoned by the un
named principals, languishing bailless
in Jail; of how Smith. the hero of al
these occasions, was still lying at the
point of death in the office shack al
the construction camp, and David Kin.
zie once more in keen pursuit OF the
loaves and fishes, was combing the
market for odd shares of the stock
which was now climbing swiftly ou'
of reach. But at this climax OF eX
haustion-or satiety-came distinct
ly new set Of thrills, more titillating
If possible, than all the others com
bined-
It was on the morning OF the thirt
day that the Herald announced the
return of Mr.. Josiah Richlander from
the Topaz; and in the marriage no
tees of the same issue the breakfast
table readers of the newspapers
learned that the multimfllionairet
daughter had been privately married
the previous evening to Mr.. Tucker
Jibbey. Two mining spectators were
chuckling over the news in the Hophrf
House grill when third man came
in to join them.
"What's the joker" queried the new
conner; and when he was shown the
marriage item, he nodded gravely
THAT'S all right; but the Herald maj
didn't get the full flavor of it. 1t was
sort of runaway match, it seems
the fond parent wasn't invited or con
suited"
81 don't see that the fond parent haf
any kick coming" said the one who
had sold Jibbey promising prospect
hole on Topaz mountain two days ear
lier. "The young fellows got all kind:
of money"
st know the land broker put in
"But they're whispering it around thai
Mr.. HIGHLANDER had other plans for
his daughter. They also say that Jib
hey wouldn't stay to face the music
that he left on the midnight train last
night few hours after the wedding
so as not to be among those present
when the old man should blow IN"
"What PIN a chorus of two-"left
his wifew
"That's what they say. But that's
only one of the new and startling
things that isn't in the morning papers,
Have you heard about Smith?-of
haven't you been up long enough yet?''
II heard yesterday that he was be-
ginning to mend" replied the break
faster on the left.
ITO BE CoNTINUEDl