I guess he was having a hard
time himself to realize that all the danger was past.
But mebby it wasn't that--he looked like he might
really of forgot where he was fur a minute, and
might be thinking of something that had happened
a long time ago.
The colonel was leaning up agin the teacher's
desk, smoking and looking at Doctor Kirby.
Doctor Kirby turns around toward the colonel.
"You have saved my life," he says, getting up
out of his chair, like he had a notion to step over and
thank him fur it, but was somehow not quite sure
how that would be took.
The colonel looks at him silent fur a second, and
then he says, without smiling:
"Do you flatter yourself it was because I think
it worth anything?"
The doctor don't answer, and then the colonel
says:
"Has it occurred to you that I may have saved
it because I want it?"
"WANT it?"
"Do you know of any one who has a better right
to TAKE it than I have? Perhaps I saved it because
it BELONGS to me--do you suppose I want any one
else to kill what I have the best right to kill?"
"Tom," says Doctor Kirby, really puzzled, to
judge from his actions, "I don't understand what
makes you say you have the right to take my life."
"Dave, where is my sister buried?" asts Colonel
Tom.
"Buried?" says Doctor Kirby.
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