II
“Walter, who is Dick Livingston?” Mrs. Wheeler asked her husband.
“Son of Henry, Doctor David’s brother.”
“Walter, Dick’s been living in this town for ten years and everybody knows him and likes him, but suddenly everybody in town has remembered that Henry Livingston wasn’t married. It is most embarrassing for Elizabeth. I think you ought to do something about it.”
“Very well, dear. I’ll go to Wyoming and look into it.”
But he never reached Wyoming alive.
(To be continued.)
III
Because he never started. He was too busy.
Who was Dick Livingston? Dick did not know. He could remember that little cabin in the Wyoming mountains, the snow-storm, himself recovering from an illness, in the care of Doctor David—nothing back of that. The rest was walled off.