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Updated: June 7, 2025
A patient of mine has come down here to stay a while wife of one of my scouts." "Well, now, my dear Major, I would not like to interfere with your private graft in the practice of medicine in any way. But I'm engineer in charge of this work, I fancy." "Fancy something else while the fancying's good. Go on over to that little log house, Waldhorn. You'll live there until we send you out."
Well, how come him and Waldhorn to know each other, that's what I want to know. So does Annie." "What I want to know, too!" said Doctor Barnes, reaching out his hand. "Annie says it's plumb nutty, the stuff in it," commented Sim. The other looked at him quizzically. "She read it then?" He read it now, himself, and stood stiff and straight at reading. "This is a cypher code stuff!
He stepped on in across the gallery. Waldhorn looked from the face of one to that of the other private soldier who stood before him, and saw the cold mask not only of discipline, but of more. Under their charge he marched over to the log building indicated, and slammed the door behind him. The men stood one on each side, out of range of the window.
The general labor in the way of finishing touches on the undertaking still went on under the care of the foremen, monotonously regular. No one knew that Waldhorn, chief engineer, was a prisoner under guard. Mary Gage was more ignorant than any prisoner of what went on about her. A hard lot, that of waiting at any time, but the waiting of the newly blind there is no human misery to equal it.
"This way, fellers Come along!" he heard Wid Gardner call out, high and clear; for that night Wid also was of the upper guard. But they were not running in his direction. They seemed to be back on the street. All at once Sim Gage solved his little problem. This Chinaman had been sent to do this work sent by the owner of that house yonder, the engineer, Waldhorn. That prisoner must not escape now.
Doctor Barnes had seen the light's play on the sky, had heard echoes in the mountains. He now reached the scene, coming at top speed up the canyon trail in his car. He met answers already formed for his questions. "They got Sim," said Wid Gardner. "Waldhorn " He hurried into the room where they had carried the wounded man. "Why, of course," said Sim Gage dully, "I'll be all right.
The forest had been fired again. The soldiers swore the silent soldier oath of revenge. Doctor Barnes did not pause even to help the women out of the car. He hurried to the long, screened gallery in front of the residence and office of Waldhorn, chief engineer. Waldhorn met him at the door, well-fed, suave, polite, a burly man, well-clad and bearing the marks of alertness and success.
He heard the screen door of the log house slam, saw a stout and burly man step out, satchel in hand. The man walked hurriedly toward a car which Sim Gage had not noticed, since there was so much unused machinery about, wheel scrapers, wagons, plows and the like. Now he saw that it was Waldhorn and Waldhorn's car. He was taking advantage of this confusion to make his own escape.
I bet he gets alone up in here and smokes hop, that's what he does, all by himself. No one but a dope fiend would pull stuff like that. "But still," she added, a finger at chin, "what bothers me is, how does Charlie know Waldhorn? Unless " "Unless what?" asked Sim Gage, his brows suddenly contracting. "Unless they're both in on this deal! What do you suppose the Doc thinks?
They took him into the house which Waldhorn had just now left. It was the turn of dawn now. The soft light of day was filtering through the air from somewhere up above, somewhere beyond the edge of the canyon. "Better tell those women to stay away," said Flaherty to the young lieutenant.
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