The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-10-20
CHAPTER XVII.
In Sunrise Gulch.

In Sunrise GuIcn.
William Starbuck drew the surgeon
aside after the first aid had been rem
| dered, and Smith. still unconscious,
| had been carried from the makeshift
| operating table in the commissary to
Williams cot In the office shack.
"How about it, Doc?" 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 he?"
Starbuck remembered that the doc
tor had come out in the auto with the
police captain and the two plain
clothes men.
"Hackerman has been talking?' he
queried.
The surgeon nodded. "He told me
on the way out. If l were in Smiths
place, Id rather pass out with bul"
let in my lung Wouldn't your
Starbuck was froWning sourly.
"SuupOsc YOU make it case OF Sus-
pended Judgment, Doc" he suggested.
"Tbp few of us here who know any
thing about il are giving John the
benefit of the doubt They'll have to
show me. and half q dozen of Us. be
fore they can send him over the road
He knew they were after him.!
"Sure thing; and he had all the
chance he needed to make his get
away. He was shot while he was
irving 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 I"
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
erwisc have to pull through"
Starbuck looked UP quickly. "T"'
em he can't be moved, Doc Dan. he
urged suddenly. And then: Your"
Dick MaxwelTs family physician, AMI
: Colonel Dexter's. and mine. Surely
1 Won can do that much for us?'
II can, and WILL" said the surgeon
:. promptly.
! Three days after the wholesale ar
: rest at the dam. Brewster gossip had
t fairly outworn itself telling and re-
4 telling the story of how the High Line
l charter had been saved of how CraW-
ford Stanton's bold ruse of hiring an
q ey-train-rObber to imperSonate a fed
p pral-cOurt officer had fallen through
d leaving Stanton and his cOnfederateS.
:. ruthlessly abandoned by the I'M
|. named principals, languishing bailless
d in iaiI; Of how Smith, the hero OF all
e these occasions, was still lying at the
4! point of death in the office shack at
& the construction camp, and David Kin
zie. once more in keen pursuit OF the
a loaves and fishes, was comblng the
IS market for odd shares of the stock
s which was now climbing swiftly out
of reach. But at this climax of ex
n haustion-Or satiety-came distinct
l. " new set of thrills, more titillating
y if possible, than all the others com
e bined-
It was on the morning of the third
day that the Herald announced the
return of Mr.. Josiah Richlander from
\ the Topaz; and in the marriage no
4 tees of the same issue the breakfast
Y table readers of the newspaper.
learned that the multimillionaire':
daughter had been privately married
the previous evening to Mr.. Tucker
Jibbey. Two mining spectators were
chuckling over the news in the Hophrt
House grill when third man came
In to join them.
"Whats the JOKE" queried the new
conner; and when he was shown tn
! marriage item, he nodded graveiy
That's all right; but the Herald mai
didn't get the full flavor Of 1t. 1t wa
sort Of runaway match, 1t seems
the fond parent wasn't Invited or con
suited"
81 don't see that the fond parent ha
any kick coming said the one VIII
had sold Jibbey a promising prospec
hole on Topaz mountain two days ear
lier. 1.-THE young fellows got all kind
of money"
ct know the land broker put In
But they're whispering 1t around tina
)n Mr.. Richlander had other plans 70
Sh his daughter They also say that jill
lp hey wouldn't stay to face the music
that he left on the midnight train las
)u night few hours after the wedding
III so as not to be among those presen
when the old man should blow in"
ne "What"-in chorus Of two-"lef
his wife,"
u That's what they say. But that
only one of the new and startlin
10 things that isn't in the morning paper!
UT Have you heard about Smith?-o
81 haven't you been up long enough yet?
NC II heard yesterday that he was b.
81 ginning to mend" replied the breal
~ faster on the left.
u lTO BE CONTINUED