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The sole promise Carpy would make concerning him was that he would fit him up either for trial, or for his museum or, as Lefever suggested, for both. The excitement of the town lay in the pursuit of Van Horn. Laramie during the first uncertain days of her father's condition stayed within Kate's call.
"Damn him!" exclaimed Carpy with blunt emphasis. "He's nervous all the time that's what's the matter. He's got too many irons in the fire." Kate swallowed her astonishment at so extraordinary a medical outburst. She reminded herself she was really out West.
But whatever my feelings are, there's something else I've got to think about. You're leaving it out. No matter what stories have been told about me, my record up to this, is clear. I've never in my life shot down a man except in self-defense. I couldn't begin by doing it now. You know what I've stood from these cattlemen in the last year " "Why," demanded Carpy, "did you do it?"
"He's sittin' in that room across the hall right now " "What's he doin'?" "Playin' poker," muttered the old cattleman grimly, "with Doc. Carpy and Harry Tenison." In strict point of fact, Laramie had left the room across the hall and at that particular moment was sitting down for a late supper at Belle Shockley's whither Sawdy and Lefever had dragged him from the hotel. Carpy had come with them.
More than once he had word of Laramie, yet nowhere could he, in his exasperation, set eyes on him. How nearly he succeeded in his mission he never knew till he had failed. Laramie had completed his dispositions and was free, after a brief round of errands, to start north, when Carpy encountered him in the harness shop next to the drug store. Laramie was in haste.
But if his hands go up though I never expect to see Harry Van Horn's hands over his head I can't do it, Doctor, that's all there is to it he'll come in alive as far as anything I have to do with it." Carpy laughed cynically: "Jim," he exclaimed with an affectionate string of abuse, "you're the biggest fool in all creation. It's all right."
He knew that Laramie must have escaped Carpy and escaped Belle, to look for the men that had tried that morning to kill him. Having found Stone he meant then and there to fight. Tenison likewise realized that he was in no condition to do it, and promptly intervened: "Don't look at me, Jim," he said. "But I'm talking. There's no man in Sleepy Cat can clear this room now.
"He's got to get him to one," affirmed Lefever. "I've seen that man," he added emphatically, "I know." "How's he going to do it," inquired Carpy, "without starting the fight all over again?" Lefever stuck to his ground: "Get him down to Sleepy Cat in the night," he insisted. "Can he ride?" asked Sawdy. "He may have to have help," said Laramie. "There's a moon right now.
"You won't starve while she stays, Belle," declared Carpy, leaving Kate in possession at the cottage, "and while I think of it," he added, turning to Kate, "Laramie says he wants to see you. You call him up on the telephone, will you?" "What for, doctor?" "To oblige me, girl. I want to hold that fellow in his room a few days more and keep his arm in a sling.
"Now if you're in a hurry, Barb, don't let me keep you, not a minute. I had my say and if there's anything pressing you down street go to it." But angry as Doubleday appeared, Carpy had given him something to think about. Consultations were held by precisely whom, no one could say, but in them there was dissension.
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