Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-24
n RS. WATSON put down her sewing
VI and looked at him thoughtfully.
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M and looked at him thoughtfully
Did the boys tell you anything
about the young man who visited Henry
Livingstone now and them"
mo. They were not very communica-
tive"
81 suppose they wouldn't tell. Yet don't
see unless" She stopped lost in some
field of speculation where he could not fol-
low her. You know, we haven't much eX-
element here and when this boy was first
seen around the place-he was here mostly
in the summer-we decided that he was a
relative. don't know why we considered
him mysterious, unless it was because he
was hardly ever seen. I don't even know
that that was deliberate. For that matter,
MIR. Livingstone wasn't much more than a
name to us.
Bassett shifted uneasily in his chair, and
frowned slightly. His apprehension that
things were going too smoothly had been
justified, then. He felt angry, almost out
ragged.
"How old do you suppose this boy was?"
HE was here at different times. When
Mr.. Livingstone died I suppose he was in
his twentes. The thing that makes it seem
odd to me is that the men didn't mention
him to you"
II didn't ask about him, of course"
She went on with her sewing, apparently
intending to drop the matter; but the re-
porter felt that now and then she was sub
jecting him to a sharp scrutiny, and that,
in some shrewd woman-fashion, she was
trying to place him.
|You said it was matter of some prop
erty?"
eyes"
"But it's rather late, isn't it? Ten years."
"Thats what makes it difficult
There was another silence, during which
she evidently made her decision.
II have never said this before, except to
Mr.. WATSON. But 1 believe he was here
when Henry Livingstone died.
Great Scott" Bassett exclaimed, star
tied at her tone. ''You don't think Living
stone was murdered?
''No He died Of heart failure There
was an autopsy. But he had bad cut on
his head. Of course, he may have fallen
Bill and Jake were away. They'd driven
some cattle out on the range. 1t was two
days before he was found. 1t would have
been longer, if Mr.. WATSON hadn't ridden
out to talk to him about buying. He found
him dead in his bed. but there was blood
on the floor in the next room. washed
it up myself"
made no comment, "I may be all wrong.
He might have fallen in the next room and
dragged himself to bed. But he was very
neatly covered up"
"It's your idea. then. that this boy put
him into the bed"
IT DON'T know. He wasn't seen about
the place. He's never been here since, But
the posse found a horse with the LIVING
stone brand, saddled, dead in Dry River
Canyon, when it was looking for Judson
Clark Of course, that was month later
The men here, Bill and Jake, claimed 1t
had wandered off, but I've often wondered
After time Bassett got up and took his
leave. He was confused and irritated Here
whether creditably or not, was Dick Lying
stone accounted for. There was story there
probably but not the story he was after Ihls
unknown had been at the ranch when henry
Livingstone died, had perhaps been indirect
ly responsible for his death. He had, witness
the horse, fed after the thing had happened.
Later on, then, David Livingstone had taken
him into his family. That was all.
Except for that Identification of Gregorys,
and for the photograph of Judson Clark, TOR
a moment he wondered if the two, Jud Clark
and the unknown, could be the same. But
Dry River would have known Clark
But the two stories tied together some
where Must tie together. He WASH
Not by blamed sight.
He almost ditched the car on his way BACK
to Norada so deeply was he engrossed IN
thought
IN the seventh of June David and Lucy
[ went to the seashore, went by the or
~ der of various professional gentlemen
who had differed violently during the course