"You must tell the story to the young girl, for I cannot, doctor."
"I will do so, though I hate to give a woman pain."
"Now, doctor, I wish to ask about the one she seeks here in Last Chance."
"Who is he, Harding?"
"The poor fellow you so devotedly cared for, but whose reason was destroyed by the wound he received from the road-agents."
"Ah, yes, poor fellow, his mind is irrevocably wrecked."
"Where is he?"
"Landlord Larry can tell you better than I, for he seems to avoid my cabin since I gave him up as a patient."
"He wanders about among the camps at will; but that reminds me that I have not seen him to-day," the landlord said.
"Is he the one the girl is coming to see?" asked Doctor Dick.