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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Well, pay for your supper, boys, and let's get away," said Carpy. "I want some sleep." But for Lefever and Sawdy there was little sleep that night.
When Laramie declared the wire must be put back by the men that had cut it, there was naturally an impasse, but Tenison and Carpy aided jointly by the representations of Lefever and Sawdy, induced Laramie to forego his punitive attitude and accept the amende as offered. This, as the doctor had predicted, put a pleasanter face on the tangled affairs of the range.
And on the rim of the precipice, high above, two active men, bending every nerve and muscle to their effort, stood with repeating rifles laid against their cheeks, pumping and firing at the figure plunging into the depths below. Late that afternoon a stable boy from Kitchen's barn appeared at Belle's, making inquiries for Doctor Carpy.
"What else did you expect?" retorted Laramie, not pleased at the recollection. Carpy, throwing back his head, laughed well: "After Kate Doubleday told me she was going for the dressings herself, I says to myself, 'There'll be two people in my house tonight a man and a woman I hope to God they don't meet." "Jim," intervened Belle, "you ought to get Abe Hawk to a hospital."
As a fait accompli it would have been regretted, but forgotten; as a failure it settled nothing. Among the few townspeople that sturdily retained independence of opinion on all matters, none stood higher than the surgeon, Doctor Carpy. And encountering Doubleday in the street shortly after the Stone incident, he took it on himself to talk to him.
Laramie in the meantime had joined a group of men at the upper end of the bar in the billiard hall McAlpin, Joe Kitchen's barn boss; Henry Sawdy, the big sporty stock buyer of the town, and the profane but always dependable druggist and railroad surgeon, Doctor Carpy. With one of these, Sawdy, Harry Tenison from behind the bar was talking.
It became clear that Laramie would start out and search the town if Kate were not produced. "She wanted to see me," he insisted, doggedly. "Now I want to see her." Carpy found he must again intervene. He despatched McAlpin as a diplomatic envoy over to his own house whither he had taken Kate as his guest when she peremptorily declined to return to Belle's.
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