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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY - tbs iron, KATB DOCBLEZXAT Sea loumered to the to vtelt bar tathor (Alt DOtTBUCDAY. wbo dmmmrlti bar wether Boon before and about whom tho cut baowa little or nothin. Tbla atranjra tatbor aha flaOt eoresed in certain dubioue enterprise which ba doaa aot aea fit to axplato. but ba oSara hia daarhtar a boaao at his ranch, and bara aha ootchlr adapta baraalt to bar aorroondlnra with tha aid and friendship of BEI.I.E BTOCKLKY a woaaaa o1 tha naif hhor-boo- d who runs aa aatina bouaa to Sleepy Cat Jane tied, tho seerby loam. Kata quickly iaama that o ta wdar war. oatenaiblr batwaaa eottlo tattar thieves ana tha bif ranch oarnara of tha couaur. . and that bar lather In looked upon aa leader Ot ana ml tha 1 action a. Hia chiel bantananta are TOX 8TONR, foreman at tbo Doubled reach, and who HttltT YAH HOKIt. a daehin cattleman Kate'o prccwtly develops into a permuted anitor lor heaio modi talk hand. Trom these and othan Kata ol ooo JOt t.apamtw whoso position In tha land la, at Brat, a matter ol soma doubt. Kate ta tnolined to ha hostile when ehe meats him, but Laramie lalla in lore with tha rirl. and In eplta of hanall aha ta Than Laramie bluntlr re fusee aa interested. to Una up with Doubleday and hia men in tha cattle firfata. and war la declared. Doubleday and Yen Born orraalao a raid on tho Fellies Wall country, where Laramie Urea, dlrectins their Operations chiefly acainst bad ABB HAWK, known aa a onttlo raetlar and man.' Hawk, yeara baton, sarad Laramie's Ills, and whan tha outlaw a capes, wounded, trom tha raiders, Laramie comae to hia aid. With tha aid ol JOHN LEFEVER, tha marshal, ha cot re Hawk's retreat to aa tnaacesedble hldms place under an old brldso abutment In tha foothills. thus tncurrins tbo open enmity ot tho' Doubled ay outfit and a bitter trom Kata, who charrm him with t denunciation Shortly afterward Kata, harborlns cattle thieves. who has lost be wty la a bluidln storm, unex- pectadly blunders on Bawk's hidinc Place, where aha finds Laramie prep arms to taka tha wounded She seta out with tha two man man to hospital. on their desperate ride through tha storm, and eA. a swollen creek Bawk saves her trom drownias at tha coat ol hla own Ule. When an elaborate funeral la arr anted for the dead outlaw by HARRY TENISON, keeper ot the hold at Sleepy Kate defies public opinCat, and other ion and rides behind the coffin. This enter her . orders to pack up and ret her ho and lather, On her way to town with an old rancher out. named Bradley ehe comes upon Van Born, 6 tone, and several other men; and a moment later Laramie appears down the road. Jim's house has Just been burned down and hia cattle driven away by Doubleday's man. and ha la flshtins mad. Takins tha raiders unawares, ba disarms them with Bradley's help, sends a defiant messase to Doubleday, demandins the return ot hie cattle, and takes Van Born and Slone to town, where they era locked up in jail, but soon released. Kate has unwlttlnfly rescaled tho location ot the hidw place at tha old brides, and hen Laramie la- - cornered by Doubleday 'a 'man, wbo manage to wound him badly aa ba escapes down a canyon. Kata hears that ha has mads h way to tbo town livery a la bio and la desperately tn need ot medical attention. She cose to tha bant, fiods a man named McAJpln there, and persuades him to taka her to where Laramie la hidden. nr , bad come. To be summarily left alone and In such a place was disconcerting. Kate, in the and silence, put her foot on the first semi-darkne- tread of the steps and, placing her hand against the wall, looked upward. Not a sound; above her a partial light through a trap door and a wounded man. Ehe stood completely unnerved. The thought of Laramie wounded, perhaps dying? the man that had reaoued her, protected her, In truth saved her life on that fearful night this man, now lying above her stricken, perhaps murdered, by her own father's friends! How could she face him? Only the thought that he should not lie wounded unto death without knowing at least that aha was not ungrateful, that sha had not wittingly betrayed him, gave her strength to start up tho narrow steps. When her head rose above tho trap opening the light to tha largo loft seemed krt than It had promised from (below. There were no windows, but through n gable dooa, partly hjar, shot a narrow aflt of daylight from tho afterglow of tho sunset. - Kate caught glimpses of a maze of rafters, struts and beams and under them huge pile of loose hay. Reaching the top step she passed, trying to look about In the dim light, when Laramie,, close at hand, startled her: " MeAlpto told me you wanted to sea me," he said. Kate" dould distinguish - nothing for a moment, but the low words reassured her. lying on the bay, ha continued, to the same tone. "If you'll open the door a little more you can see better." Picking her way carefully ever to it, Kate pushed the dodt open somewhat wider and turned toward Laramie. ( He lay not far from the stairs. The yellow light ot the evening glow falling on hla face reflected a greenish pallor. Kate caught her, breath, for It seemsdtas If she were looking Into the face of death until she perceived, as he turned his head, the unusual brightness of his eyes. In her confusion what sha had meant ta say fled. "Are you very much hurt?" she Tn faltered. - " Far from It," he spoke slowly. If H cost an effort none was dlacernlbln "Coming Into the bam tonight," he went on, very him had a kind of dizzy spell. haltingly, again. " Tvs been eating too much meat lately, anrwev. .Thar say X fell off "I C ,v TOE " my horse; leastways I bumped my head, m be all right tomorrow." Bella told ms there had been a fight up at the canyon bridge, Kata atammerad, aL ready at n losa ta begin. A stokly yellow smile pointed the aflenoe. " I wouldnt call it exactly a fight," ha said, dwelling somewhat on tho last wjrd. " Far from It" ha repeated, with a touch ot grimaces. " There was soma shooting. And soma runntog."s Sha eould sea how ha panood between sentences. "But If tha other follows ran It must have been after me. 1 didnt pay much attention to who eras behind. X had to make a tolerably steep grade down the Falling Wall ladder to the river. I was on horseback, and didnt have much leisure to pick my way." "And they shooting at you team tha rim!", Well, they must hava been shooting at something In my j lu wort FOURTEENTH INSTALLMENT. . , Laramie Tells A lie. pacing McAlpln's rapid step hung on hla KATE, words: He's hleedla to death," continued McAlpln; that's the short of It, and that blamed doctor down at Medicine Bend. Z don't think much o that man. Gant Wheres this goto to nope of us Stop it. end?" He led her by roundabout passages, np one alley and down another, and at last opened the door of an old harness room, waited for Kate to follow him inside and, dosing the door behind her, spoke: "Z didnt want you to hava to rtlmb a bara ladder," he said, ' explaining. " Theres the Stairs." He pointed in the semi darkness and led her toward tha flight along the opposite wall. At thS (op of this flight light fell from a square opening tn the hay mow. "Walk up them stairs I lifted the trap door fr ye. Hes right up there at the head of the steps. When y come down, open this door at the foot, here. Its a blind door; dont show on the other side. Pee, its bolted. It lakes you' right into the office. We keep It bolted from the inside, so no trouble cant come, see? " He unbelted and opened the door a crack to show her, closed and rebolted U. Then starting her up the stairs, McAlpln Jerked the crazy viser on his forehead into a fashion ones more simulating childlike frankness and disappeared by the way ha r general : direction. me once, 24. 1921. gvFBKNK H.SPEASMARi HP had become so absorbed ta Us recital that the entrance into the barroom from the barber shop of a booted and spurred man ped him. The man, advancing deliberately, heard the last of MoAl pins words. He got fairly close to the unsuspecting barn bees unobserved. A few to the listening circle noting the approach of the new ar-rival, stepped back a little for, of all men that aright b axpsctsd, after MoAlpln's dark Intimations, to appear, than and there, alive and aggressive, was Tom Stone. Freshly bar bared, head forward, keen eyes peering from under staring, sandy brows; thumbs stuck in his belt and bis face framing a confident leer. Stone sauntering forward. listened to MoAlpln. 8s intent was McAlpln on Impressing hi hearers that the foreman elbowed bis way, before McAlpln eaw him, directly to the front The wiry McAlpln caught hia breath. Scotchman waa pot a coward, but he knew the merciless cruelty of Stone. Armed, would have been no man to affront his deadly skill; he now faced him unarmed. 8tone, leaving hla right hand hooked by the thumb in hla belt rested his left, elbow'' on the bar. .The bartender, Luke, Just back of him, leaning forward, mopped the bar more .slowly, and, listening, moved a little farther down the bar until his fingers rested on an electric button underneath connected with Tenlsons office in the hotel. Name tha two men, McAlpln." said Stone, ominously, " while you're able to talk," h e ingenuity in his ' McAlpln exhausted to evade his danger, but Stone drew his j noose about him tighter and tighter. He played the unlucky man with all the malice of an executioner. He baited him and toyed with him. MoAlpln, white, stood his ground. Hla fighting blood was all there, and he broke at length Into a torrent of abuse of the man that he realised was bent on murdering him. Made eloquent by desperation, McAlpln never rose to greater heights of profane. candor. It was as If he wars making his last will and testament of hatred and contempt for his murderer, and when he had showered on his enemy every epithet stored in a re-- , , tentfvs memory h struck his- - empty glass on the bar and shouted: Now, you hell eat, man would drink with you It ba wasnt atraf 1 of you. And after tonight nobodys going ti be afraid of you. Youre a thief among thieves, Tom 8tone; a bully, a coward, a skulker. You shoot from oover. Whan Barb ada you foreman you and Van Hors stole . bis cattle and Dutch Henry sold em for you and divvied with you. Then, for fear Barb Would get wise, yon "and Van Horn got up th raid and killed Dutch Henry, ao ha eouldnt talk. Now youre going to quit tbla stuff. No more thieving, no more man killing, no bully ragging, no nothing. Tenison will clear this room. Hold your glass right where It Is till the last man gets out ' When he fiats out set down your (lass; youll have time enough allowed you. After that draw where you stand. Youre not entitled to a ebenaa. God. Stone, Id rather bunk with a rattlesnake thaa witb you. r'd rather kill one than kllf a thing like, you. Your head ought to be pounded with a rock. Youre entitled to But you can have your chance nothing. Get the boys out of here, Harry." Not for one instant did be take hia eye off, Stone's eye or raise his tone above a speaking voice, and Laramies voice was naturally low- - To catch his syllables, listeners crowded In and craned their necks. Few men withdrew, but every one courteously and sedulously got out of the prospective Me-Alp- ln Z I didnt they hit mind getting Jblt myself, but I didnt want them to hit my line ofrflre. ts Tu wtH Asm fa harry and got aaott ff I stay fm hoginning fa think you ora tho wily ' friond I flaoa flora." horse. Z was heading for tha bottom as fast aa tha law would allow. If theyd hit tha horse, I wouldnt have had muoh more than one tump from the rim to, the river. Cant ' ask yon to sit dorm," ha added, unless youll alt her on the hay." Without tha least hesitation, Kate placed herself beside him. 'Without giving her to speak and In tha same monotone, he added: " Who told you I was a gambler?" loos than so blunt and unexpected a question would have sufficed to take hsr aback. And aha was conscious In the tiding light of his strangely bright eyes Aged steadily on her. "I dont remember anybody ever did. I " "Somebody did.? You told Belle once." It must have been long " Is that tha reason you never acted nat, ural with me?" She flushed with impatlenoa. But If she tried to get away he brought her back to the subject. Cornered, she grew resentful. "I cant tell who told me," she pleaded, after Ive forgotten. Ar Ineffectual sparring. you a gambler? she demanded, turning Inquisitive herself. He did not move, and It waa an instant he replied: "What dd you mean." ha ' asked, by gambler?" Kates tone wsa bard: " Just what any--. f body means " If you mesa a man that makes his Itvtng by gambling or hangs around a gambling bouse all the time, or plays regularly then . I couldnt fairly and squarely pm called a gambler. If you mean a man that plays cards sometimes, or has one to a while bet on a game to a gambling bouse, then, I suppose" he Was so evidently squirming that Kata meanly enjoyed his discomfort "you might call me that. It would all depend on whether the one telling It liked me or didnt like me. I havent been in Tenl sons rooms for months, nor played but one game of poker." "I despise gambling." "Why didnt you toll me?" ' s i Why should "la on sens everybody's a gambler . Everybody I know of to playing Cor something, Taka your fkthdg and too: Has playing for rgy life; fm plapfng Co yoa. playing tor a smal otafeec Xm playing Cor a big on." She oouM not protoot quick enough: "tos talk wildly." "No." b persisted evenly, I only toak-sr- t . It fust as It la "Dont ask ms to battova all to cruel things said of my father any mar to an you waipt m to boiler to things said of you. I am terribly sorry to so you wounded. And new" hsr words caught in hsr throat "Bell blames ms even for that" "How ou earth does Oho blame you for ago" " . bo-for- e ir Hs that?" ' Despite bar efforts ta son tool herself. Kata, as she approached tbs unpleasant subject, began to tremble Inwardly with th fear that it must after all be mm Bell had rudely asserted that her father waa behind these efforts against Lenumlss Ufa For nothing had shaken her tottering faith to her father more than the blunt words Laramie himself had Just now indifferently spoken. " If I am in any way to blame. It Is Innocently, she hurried on. "I will tell you everything; you shall fudge. My father was bitterly angry when he lesrnsd I had been seen at Abe Hawk's funeral. I told him about my getting lost, about falling into the place at the bridge how you did everything you oould, and how Abe Hawk bad done all he oould. He was so angry he would listen to " she stopped, collected herself. nothing z'' tried to go on, oould not O, X hate this oountryl " eh exclaimed. flora, :.V w-mle at the door: " Whatkr you doin hers, Jim?" he demanded. "What would I be doing anywhere?" retorted Laramie. " Go back, to your den. This man says to it! And Fm going away frem it as far aa I can get But I wouldnt go," she said determinedly, "without seeing you and telling you this "I bate the people and everything much." Laramie spoke quietly, but With confidence: "You ar not going away from tbla country." Kate had picked up a stem of hay and, looking down at It, was breaking it nervously between her fingers. "You will have to hurry up and get well if I stay," she said abruptly. Fm beginning to think you' arw the only friend I have here. And," aha added, so quickly a a to out off any word from him, Ive told you everything. I only hope my speaking about the hiding place at the bridge when father waa angry with ms and only to defend myself was not th cause of this." She Was does beside him. Can it be, Sha asked, " that this was how it happened?" He heard her vole break with tha question. "No," he blurted out instantly. she cried. " Fm so thankful? Listening to her effort to apeak tha words, he was not sorry tor what he had said. " If youre going to lie," Hawk bad ones said to don't stumble, dont beat him, cynically, about tha bush do, a Jobl " The moment Kate told her story, Laramie knew exactly how he had been trapped. ' But why blame her? Its th first time I ever fled- to her b thought, ruefully to himself " Its th first tons she ever believed toe! " youre - " Does Belle know you quarreled with your father?" he asked, to get away from the Ject No," she answered, steadying herself. " She said youd been acting sort of queer "I cant tell people my troubles" "Why did you tell me?" "You might die and blame ms" Who says Fm going to die?" They were afraid you might." "Well, I dont like to disappoint anybody, but dying Is a thing a man is entitled to take his tons about "Cant I do something till the doctor comes?" He turned very slowly bn his aids Kate made aa attempt to examine hla shoulder. She waa not used to the sight of blood. The dotted sad matted rfothtog awed and sickened her. Even tha hay waa blood soaked, but she stock to hsr efforts Bapptamsntteg th rad efforts of MoAlpto and Kltrthsst to gtva him first aid, she out away, with Laramie's knife, the bullet tanf boat sad abjand tried to get the wound ready for cleansing. " Fm so afraid of doing the 'wrong thing she murmured, fearfully, " I don't care what you do do something," he said. " Your hands feel awful good-- " " I've nothing hers to work with." " All right, well go to tho drug store and get something." After stubborn efforts he got on his foot and lnslstod on going down the stairs Nothing that Kate oould say would dissuade him- - " Ive been here long enough, I'm feeling betanyway," was his decision! ter every minute; only awfully thirsty." Kate steadied him down the dark stairs, fearful ho might fell over her aa she went ahead. Secrecy cf movement seemed to have no significance- for him. If hla friends were disturbed, Laramie was not. He evidently knew the harness room, for ho opened the blind door with hardly any hesitation and stepped Into the offlos The offloe waa empty, but th street door of the stable was open. MoAlpln stood In th gangway talking to some man who evidently caught a glimpse of Laramie, for he said rudely and loud enough for Kate to hear: "Hell, McAlpln! There comes your dead man now!" Kata recognized the heavy voice of Carpy and shrank back. The doctor, McAlpln behind him, dumbly staring, confronted Lnra- - It might have been thought Stone would check suoh a public castigation. He did not. Impervious to abuse, because master of the situation, he seemed to enjoy his vlotlm's Fm finishing up with your gang fury. around here, McAlpln." he snarled, never losing his grin. " Youve run a rustlers barn in Bleepy Cat long enough,. Ive warned you and Ive warned Kitchen. It didnt do n good. Fill up your glass McAlpln." Stone, Td never fill up a glass with you if I was In hell n' you could pull me out." Stone's grin deepened: " Fill up your glass, hay." Looking for a feather bed to die in? Some men are blamed particular." Aa be spoke Carpy caught his first glimpse of Kate. , "Hello! There's the pretty little girl from the great big ranch, ifo wonder the man's up and coming what did you send for mo for, McAlpln? Where you heading, Jim?" With his hands on the door Jambs, Carpy effectually barred the exit Knowing his stubborn patient well, he humored him, to the verge of letting him have his own way, but with much raillery denied him the drug store trip. A compromise waa effected. Laramie consented to go to Belle's to get something to eat. In this way, refusing help, the obdurate patient was got to walk to the cottage. Don't let Ijjtn fall on y McAlpln cautioned Kate, as the two followed close behind. " I helped carry him upstairs Hes a ton o brick." But Laramie, either incensed by bis condition the idea ot any escort being vastly unpleasant to him or animated by the stiff hypodermics of profanity that Carpy injected Into the talk as they crossed the street, did not even stumble; he held his tray unaided--m- et Belle's amazement unresponslvely, and, sitting dowq, called for something to eat. How does he do It, Doc? whispered craning forward from the background. "Pure, damned nerve," muttered Carpy. " But he does it" They got him Into bed. While the doctor was excavating the channel ripped through his shoulder, Laramie said nothing. When, however, he discovered that Kate waa missing. be crustily short circuited Belle's excuses. Words passed. It became clear that Laramie would start out and searoh the town t if Kate wore not produced. " Ehe wanted to see mo." bo Insisted, doggedly. Now I want to see 1st Carpy found be must again Intervene. Ha dispatched MoAlpln as a diplomatic envoy over to his own house Whither b had 'takas Kate as his guest when she declined to reJ turn to Belle's. However others may have felt that night about Laramies affairs, one man, MoAlpln, was proud of bis ride desperately wounded, all the way to townT Laramie had made a confidant of no one but Kate. Hla axperi-eno- e In being trapped waa not so pleasant that be liked to talk about It and neither MoAlpln's shrewd questioning nor Carpy' restrained curiosity was gratified that night. In th circumstances, MoAlpln's fancy had full play; and distrustful of his Imagination unaided, he repaired early to the Mountain House bar to stimulate it. Thus It gradually transpired along tpo bar, either from the stimulant or Its reaction or from MoAlplns excitement, that a big fight had taken place that morning In the Falling Wall from which only Laramie had returned allva It was known that ha had coma bock and Inference as to who the dead men might be could center only on hla two active enemies, Tom Stone and Harry Van Horn. Th pawky barn boss, who possessed Vperfectly the art of tantalizing innuendo, thus stirred the barroom pool to the depths. McAlpln chose the rustler's end of th bar os Abe Hawks old stand was called and held the Interest of the room against all comers v shoot!" the ", . dying." "Well, Im not getting much encouragement at It Ive been waiting for you three hours to help things along. I'm done with MoAlpln." Onlookers, knowing what a refusal would mean,' held their breaths. But McAlpln, whits , . and stubborn, with another oath, again refused. Fill It, MoAlpln," urged a fluiet voice behind the bar.t Looking quickly, like a hunted animal, around, McAlpln saw Harry Tenison, white faced and cold, pushing the bottle In friendly fashion toward him. Every man save one, watching, hoped he would humor at least, that much his expectant murderer. But the barn boss had reached a state of fear and anger that Inflamed every stubborn drop In his blood. He swore he would not flU his glass. , Tenison spoke grimly: " Win you drink It if I fill It, you mule?" he demanded, picking up the bottle and pouring into both glasses In front' of him. In the dead aliens McAlpln's brain was In a storm. He collected a few of his wildly flying thoughts Perhaps be remembered the wife and Loretta and the babies; at all events he stared at the liquor, gulped to see whether he could swallow, and, reaching forward, picked up the glass. Stone lifted Ms own. The two men, their glasses poised, eyed each other. Stone barbed a taunt for hia victim: "Goto to drink, air you?" he sneered, wreathing Ills eyes in tearing wrinkles. "No, said a man, unnottosd nrrtfl then by any asoept Tenison and Luka, and speaking aa b pushed forward through th crowd to too both Eton and MoAlpln. Hes not going to drink. Stone's glass was half way up to hla Ups; he looked across it and saw himself face to fao with Jim Laramie. Laramie, who, unseen, had heard enough of tho quarrel, stood with his coat slung over his right shoulder; on arnf he oarried In a sling, but aa far as this concerned Eton, it was tbs wrong arm. Daring neither to raise the whisky to hla Ups nor to set the glass down, lest Laramie, suspecting he meant to draw, should shoot. Stone stood rooted. McAlpln's not going to drink, 8tons," repeated Lara mis. "What ar you going to do about It?" The mere sight of Laramie would have been a vastly unpleasant surprise. But to find himself faced by him In fighting trim after what had taken place in th morning was an upset ' What am X going to do about It? " echoed Stone, lifting his eyebrows end grinning anew. "What are you going to do about it, Jim? be demanded. "You and me used to bunk together, didnt we? " "I bunked with a rattlesnake one. I didnt know It" responded Larami, dryly. " Next morning the rattlesnake didnt know It." "Jim, 1 ' r , ?hat It cost Laramie reven to stand on bis feet and talk Tenlsob could most shrewd-- . ly cstlmata From behind the bar he coldly regarded th wounded man. H knew that. Laramie must have escaped Carpy and Belli to look for the men that had tried that njbrn-ln- g to kill him. Having found Stone h meant then and there to fight. Tenison likewise realised that he was In no oondltlon to do It, and promptly inter vened: "Don't look at me Jim," he said. . " But I'm talking. Therep no man In Sleepy Cat can clear this roomnow. Most of this crowd ore your friends. They wtlnt to eee this hellhound cleaned up. But yoa know soma of 'em If two guns what It means cut loo. Stone saw toe gate open. He welcomed a 'chance to Aodge. Eyeing Laramie, he swallowed his drink, set hla glass on too bar. With4 voloe dried and cracked ha cried; "Keep your hands off, Tenison. FU give Jim Laramie all tha fight ha wants, here or anywhere." Tenison was willing to bridge toe crisis with abuse. " Shut up, you coyote ho remarked, with complete tn difference. " You'll throw a man down no matter how much of year whisky he drinks, won't you, Tenison? " cried Stone. Tenison, both hands Judicially spread on toe bar, seemed to fall to hear. "MoAlpln," ' ho aaid contemptuously, walk around be hind Laramie and lift Stone's gun." Btone started violently. "Look out. Ten-- Isonl I lift my gun when theres meal to stand by and see fair play!" A roar of laughter went up. "I dont lift It for no fromeup," ha shouted, turning angrily toward the unsympathetic crowd. "Get outl " cried one voloe far enough hack to be seta. "Sand for B&rb shouted a second. " Pag Yen Horn piped a barber, aa Stone moved toward too door. . The baited foreman turned only tor a parting shot at Laramie. " m eee go later." , " If I wee your friend, retorted Laramie, unmoved, "Td advise you not to. If you . ride my trail dont axpect anything more from me. And I make this town," he ham- mered home the point with hia right forefinger indicating the floor, "and the Falling Wall range mg trail" "Stone ought to have tried It tonight," observed Tenison at the cash register. He eras speaking to hia bartender long after Stone had disappeared. Iaramle had been put to bed again, and the billiard hall had been deserted. Hell never get a chance again at Laramie half shot to pieces." ' Laramie, held for a week in bed, learned from the doctor of Belles outburst at and, acting through him and with him, arranged peace. Complaining of a cold, with her ether trow hies. Belle took to bed when eras moved to the hotel and Kate turned la to nurse her. "You won't gtarvu wbfl She stays, declared Carpy, leaving Kata la at toe cottage, "and wbfl J think ot It." h added, turning to Kata "Luanda h wants to ess you. Yoq call ht am a to telephone, win you?" What for, doctor?" "To oblige ma Kiri. L want to hcM that fellow In bis room a few days mere and keep hia arm in a sling. Hes no easier te handle than a wildcat." Kata looked perplexed. " What ehsi? I soy y to No . , I No." "Can you tell me when bewin he tnT" He wont be In." She sighed with Impatience. I want to apeak to him. And I think this is ha spooning. Yoa know(vry well who I am," persisted. "Ido." "And I knew very well whq ycu are old times." drink with you, Eton. hlmr Carpy stood at the door with Ms haadua the knob. "Jolly him along you know hum He eaya hes coming down her tor ntrmer tonight Ten him Bent's sick." Belle listened. The more Kate considered the mandate the more confusing It seemed. But she rang up the hotel, called for Laramie, end heard presently a man's Trice in answer. " la this Mr. Laramie?" ehe asked. It Is not," was the answer. t Isn't he there?" FU drink with you Just once for "I wouldnt ' I Continued on following pagej |