The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-11-17
CHAPTER XVII.
In Sunrise GuIch.

In Sunrise GuIch.
William Starbuck drew the surgeon
aside after the first aid had been rem
deved. and Smith, still unconscious,
had been carried from the mnSssh,ft
operating table In the comMissary to
Williams cot in the Office shack.
SLOW about 1t, Doc?" asked the
mine owner bluntly.
The surgeon shook his head doubt
fully.
II can't say. He'll be rather lucky
II 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 tnIlsing2" he
querled.
The surgeon nodded. "He told me
on the way out. If l were in Smiths
place. I'd rather pass out with bull
let in my lung. Wouldn't you?
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 it are giving John the
benefit of the doubt. They'll have to
show me, and half 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
trying to get between and stop the
war and keep others from getting
killed"
'Tt's pity" said the surgeon, glanc-
ing across ut the police captain to
whom Colonel Baldwin was appealing
They'll put him in the hospital cell
ut the jnil, and that will cost him
whatever slender chance he might 9th.
eYwise have to pull through"
Starbuck looked up quickly. "Tcll
'em he can't be moved, Doc 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 us?
IT can, and WILL" said the surgeon
promptly.
Three days after the wholesale ar
rest ut the dam, Brewster gossip had
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 an
ex-train-robbcr to impersonate fed
ersl-court officer had fallen through
leaving Stanton and his confederates,
ruthlessly abandoned by the UNI
named principals, languishing bailless
in jail; Of how Smith, the hero OF all
these occasions, was still lying at the
point Of death in the office shack AT
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 out
Of reach. But at this climax of ex-
haustion-or satiety-came distinct
ly new set of thrills, more tltillating,
II possible, than all the others COM
bined
It was on the morning Of the third
day that the Herald announced the
return of Mr.. Josiah HIGHLANDER from
the Topaz; and in the marriage no
tees of the same Issue the breakfast
table readers of the newspapers
learned that the multfmfllionafre's
daughter had been privately married
| the previous evening to Mr.. Tucker
Jibbey. Two mining spectators were
chuckling over the news In the Hophrn
House grill when third man came
In to join them.
"What's the joke" queried the new
| conner; and when he was shown the
marriage item, he nodded gravely
"That's all right; but the Herald mar
didn't get the full flavor Of 1t. 1t was
a sort Of runaway match, 1t seems
the fond parent wasn't invited or con
suited"
81 don't see that the fond parent has
any kick coming" said enc one who
had sold Jlbbey promising prospec
hole on Topaz mountain two days ear
Ilier. 1.-THE young fellows got oil kinds
of money"
81 know" the land broker put In
.But they're whispering 1t around tina
Mr.. HIGHLANDER had other plans To-
his daughter. They also say that Jib
hey wouldn't stay to face the music
that he left on the midnight train las
night few hours after the wedding
so as not to be among those presen
when the old man should blow in"
"what?"--in u chorus Of two--"lef
his wifef"
"That's what they say. But thati
only one Of the new and startling
things that isn't In the morning papers
Have you heard about Smithf--ol
haven't you been up long enough YETI
81 heard yesterday that he was be
r,nninr to mend" repli.d the breab
foster on the left.
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