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AT THE STEVENS PLACE.
When the excitement of the outrage had been pushed aside by the insistent routine of everyday living, Thurston found himself thrust from the fascination of range life and into the monotony of invalidism, and he was anything but resigned.

To be sure, he was well cared for at the Stevens ranch, where Park and the boys had taken him that day, and Mrs.
Stevens mothered him as he could not remember being mothered before.
Hank Graves rode over nearly every day to sit beside the bed and curse the Wagner gang back to their great-great-grandfathers and down to more than the third generation yet unborn, and to tell him the news.

On the second visit he started to give him the details of Bob's funeral; but Thurston would not listen, and told him so plainly.
"All right then, Bud, I won't talk about it.

But we sure done the right thing by the boy; had the best preacher in Shellanne out, and flowers till further notice: a cross uh carnations, and the boys sent up to Minot and had a spur made uh--oh, well, all right; I'll shut up about it, I know how yuh feel, Bud; it broke us all up to have him go that way.