"My God, Tom,
is she DEAD?"
"I ask you," says Colonel Tom.
"And I ask you," says Doctor Kirby.
And they looked at each other, both wonderized,
and trying to understand. And it busted on me
all at oncet who them two men really was.
I orter knowed it sooner. When the colonel
was first called Colonel Tom Buckner it struck me I
knowed the name, and knowed something about it.
But things which was my own consarns was attract-
ing my attention so hard I couldn't remember what
it was I orter know about that name. Then I seen
him and Doctor Kirby knowed each other when they
got that first square look. That orter of put me
on the track, that and a lot of other things that
had happened before. But I didn't piece things
together like I orter done.
It wasn't until Colonel Tom Buckner called him
"Dave" and ast him about his sister that I seen
who Doctor Kirby must really be.
HE WAS THAT THERE DAVID ARMSTRONG!
And the brother of the girl he had run off with
had jest saved his life. By the way he was talking,
he had saved it simply because he thought he had
the first call on what to do with it.
"Where is she?" asts Colonel Tom.
"I ask you," says Doctor Kirby--or David
Armstrong--agin.
Well, I thinks to myself, here is where Daniel
puts one acrost the plate.
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