The St. Johns herald., 1921-06-16

but lost trace of the kid entirely"
 "Yer mean the colonel never even know'd he'd married a rich girl?"
 "So 1t seems. I reckon she didn't even know it, his wife. But after awhile some inkIing of the truth must have reached him, for he went East, and began to make inquiries through a lawyer. When Churchill heard about this Ee got scared. reckon he'd played h-l with the trust funds by that time, an with the husband on his trail got mighty desperate. Meanwhile the daughter was in some convent school, and not to be found. Carlyn struck a hot trail all right, but, be- fore he could take any action, was shot and killed in a street fight with some rOughs in Sheridan. Nobody knows for sure just how it happened, but it's my opinion Churchill got up the row just to get him out O the way. It all happened sudden, an un- expected, the only fellow with the colonel at the time being an old ser geant, named Calkins. CaIkins was shot himself, but got away, and took care of Carlyn till he died, maybe an hour later. Enyhow he kept the fel- lows from getting hold O any papers, an reckon the colonel give him an idea of what was-up."
 "What makes you think sop
 "The way he acted afterward. Churchill had got Carlyn out of the way, but he couldn't locate the girl. He didn't suspect the sergeant at first, nor for a long time. He was O foxy guy, ard stuck to the army for several years, never maxim a move, just payin' for the girls schooIin', but never goin' near her, Then, when everybody had quit watchin' him. Cal kins took his discharge papers, and skipped out, takin' the girl with him."
 "HOw could he do that?"
 That's what I asked Macklln, an he said they'd finally found out that durin' the time between when Carlyn was shot, an when he died, he'd signed a paper maxim Calkins the girls guardian, an gave him the key to a deposit box in Kansas City. where all his papers was. A lawyer named Weeks, at Sheridan, did 1t for him. You see the colonel didn't have no near relatives, an he an Calkins had been soldering together for years; he sOrter trusted the sergeant to play square. an he sure did !"
 'The h-l he did! Never made a peep for the money, did he? An just hid out all round the country with ] the girl. I don't call that playin' very l square,"
 'Well, 1t was, just the same, d-d square, if you ask me. It was what i Weeks advised him to do. after he went to Virginia, an got a peep at copy of the will on file. This girl had no legal rights till she was of .lge- see! Churchill knew this, an he didn't do much O anything else fer ten years, but try to get his hands on her. Old Calkins was smart enough to fool him. The colonel had money enough in the deposit box, so they could live on 1t quletlike, an the ser geant never wasted a cent. He just naturally lived for that girl, till about a month ago. He was smart enough not even to trust her; she never knew what they was hidin' from"
 Hank touched a match to another cigarette, impressed with the story.
 "Rum kind of a business, I'd say" he admitted at last, "but just where did this devils imp of a MacklIn fit imp
 q ain't got that all figured out yet" admitted Hanley. You know pretty near as much about him as do. Furst time saw the feller he rode in yere along with Cassady's outfit, after that N. P. holdup, an he's been trainin' with Cassady more or less ever since. After I had this talk with him, when he was drunk, 1 put him to bed, an picked up letter, or two, what fell out of his pocket. got some O this stuff out O them. One of them was written by Churchill, an judgin' from the way 1t read, the Kid ain't really named MackIin at all-he's a Churchill himself the old cuss' son."
 'Well, I'll be d-dT"
 "You know the rest; how he stum- bled onto OF Calkins down in Ponca, an what happened. You can't make me believe the old fellow killed him. self; he wasn't that kind. But, how ever it happened, the girl was left helpless; then d-d if she didn't marry that rancher over on the Cottonwood, an spoil the whole game"
 Hank laughed coarsely.
 Trough luck; but the Kid played his hand all right"
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