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"His sister was one of the women massacred by the Chippewas down on White River that time. She was the young wife of a settler. Isaac will be overjoyed when he finds out that Jasper Suggs and Simon Braley are one and the same person." He was speechless for a moment, comprehension coming slowly to him. "By all that's holy!" he exclaimed, something like awe in his voice.
"I see," said Bristow, betraying no surprise that Withers had appeared so suddenly. In fact, he had not thought of the husband previously, except to calculate that, in answer to the telegram Dr. Braley had undoubtedly sent, he could not reach Furmville from Atlanta before far into the night. "He only heard of the tragedy half an hour ago," Greenleaf added.
I was inclined to put some faith in the wisdom of these gentlemen, until Doctor Braley, chief veterinary surgeon of the department of Washington, produced the most convincing proofs that it was almost an impossibility for these animals to become injured in the shoulder.
Sentimental tears rolled dustily over Phebe's cheeks as she kissed and embraced her mother and sisters. "H'y," Richmond Braley awkwardly saluted her; and "H'y," she answered in the local manner. "Well," he commented, "you hain't forgotten that anyway." Calvin was asked to stay for the supper that had been delayed for Phebe's return, but when he declined uncertainly he wasn't pressed.
If he can't spot him at any of the hotels, have him make the rounds of the boarding houses. I think you'd like to get your hands on a customer as slippery as Withers says that man is." "I'll send Jenkins at once," the chief took his directions in good part. "Good again. By the way, you'll be up here at four?" "No; five. Dr. Braley told me we'd have to wait until then; said we'd better.
You've given me information that may bring the old woman to her senses." "Them two fellers that come up on the boat to-day. Air you sure you c'n " "That's all for to-night," interrupted Barry, and strode off up the street, leaving Jasper Suggs, sometime Simon Braley of the loathsome Girty stock, to wend his lonely way out into a silence as black as the depths of his own benighted soul.
"I'm right glad Phebe had so much spirit." Richmond Braley evidently thought it was time for certain reservations. "You mustn't come down so hard on Calvin and me," he said practically. "We're both likely young fellows." "I'll be here evening after to-morrow," Calvin told Hannah in a low voice. She nodded without interest.
Braley, a thin, quick-moving little man of thirty-five, bent over the dead woman, lifted one of her eyelids, and examined her throat as far as was possible without moving the head. "She was choked to death," he gave his opinion. "Although the eyes are closed, you see the effect they produce of almost starting from their sockets. And the tongue protrudes. Besides, there are the marks on her throat.
Calvin said: "You must be Phebe Braley. Well, I'm Calvin Stammark. Your father or Hosmer couldn't meet the stage and so they had to let me get you. Where's your bag?" She adopted at once an air of comfortable familiarity. "I don't remember your name," she said, settling beside him in the buggy.
"How about Miss Fulton?" he asked. "Can I get a statement from her?" "Not just yet. Give her a little more time to get herself together. Besides, she told me something about the er affair. Most remarkable statement most remarkable." "What was it?" "She says," related Braley, "that she only discovered the dead body of her sister a few minutes before she was heard crying for help. Her sister, Mrs.
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