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Updated: June 4, 2025
"For a month we kept company, and Bill Coogan and Dan Farrar and the rest of them took my notice and kept off. The women laughed at me and sneered at her; but I minded them not, for I knew the ways of the factory, and besides there wasn't a man's voice in the lot that I heard.
At last he passed over the bridge, in a flurry of swirling ice-crystals, and finally made his way into McGurn's store, which is across the way from the railway depot. "Cold night," he announced, stamping his feet near the door. "Follansbee he says they report fifty below at White River," a man sitting by the stove informed him. Coogan nodded and approached the counter.
The undertaker's shop that held the morgue looked hardly less gloomy in the afternoon sun than in the light of breaking day in which I had left it when I parted from Detective Coogan. The office was decorated mournfully to accord with the grief of friends who ordered the coffins, or the feelings of the surviving relatives on settling the bills.
He had never watched Douglass's play before, but smiled confidently at what he mistook for awkwardness when Ken clumsily shuffled the cards, the deal having fallen to him. It was dealer ante and Douglass stayed when Coogan came in. The gambler filled his hand, aces on sixes, on a three card draw. He passed the bet and Douglass bet one chip; Coogan raised it two and Douglass called.
He took the ominous yellow envelope from the hand of the pompous lackey who presented it and almost tore the enclosure in twain as he wrenched it from its flimsy covering. One hasty glance and he gave a great shout of joy. "Gracie listen!" "Douglass secured bill sale from Coogan without trouble. Is well and hearty. Congratulations on your manager! He is a wonder!
Then as she watched it was commingled with another expression that boded ill for the honor as well as the fortunes of Big Bart Coogan. "I reckon I'll say adios, Señora," he said finally. "I have things to attend to. When can I see you again?" Her raven locks brushed his as she bent forward to look at the tiny jeweled chatelaine watch on her bodice.
If it be true that the uncertainty of the future alone makes living endurable, then Bart Coogan was just now having the time of his life! With his characteristic directness, Douglass came straight to the point without delay: "Mr. Coogan, I have just ascertained that you are the putative owner of the O Bar O brand, the registry and record standing in your name.
I found paper, and, assuring Detective Coogan of my gratitude at escaping the inquest, I asked him to turn the body over to the undertaker to be buried at my order. The other note was more perplexing. I could make nothing of it. It was evidently from my unknown employer, and her anxiety was plain to see.
My decision was of necessity promptly taken. "Oh, well, if that's the way you look at it, Coogan," I said carelessly, "it's all right. I thought it was agreed that we weren't to know each other." This was a chance shot, but it hit. "Yes, yes," said the detective, "I remember. But, you see, this is serious business.
At the best of times it could not be a place of cheer. In the hour before daybreak, with the chill air of the morning almost suppressing the yellow gaslights, the errand on which I had come made it the abode of dread. Yet I hoped hoped in such an agony of fear that I became half-insensible to my surroundings. "Here it is," said Coogan, opening a door.
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