would absorb the day, I felt no necessity of being in a hurry.
The absence of Dorg Seay was annoying, and the fellow had done us
such valiant service, I felt in honor bound to secure his
release. Accordingly I wired the city marshal at Kinsley, and
received a reply that Seay had been released early that morning,
and had started overland for Dodge. This was fortunate, and after
settling all bills, I offered to pay the liveryman in advance for
the rig in Seay's possession, assuring him by the telegram that
it would return that evening. He refused to make any settlement
until the condition of both the animal and the conveyance had
been passed upon, and fearful lest Dorg should come back
moneyless, I had nothing to do but await his return. I was
growing impatient to reach camp, there being no opportunity to
send word to my outfit, and the passing hours seemed days, when
late in the afternoon Dorg Seay drove down the main street of
Dodge as big as a government beef buyer. The liveryman was
pleased and accepted the regular rate, and Dorg and I were soon
galloping out of town. As we neared the first divide, we dropped
our horses into a walk to afford them a breathing spell, and in
reply to my fund of information, Seay said:

"So Tolleston's telling that he licked me. Well, that's a good
one on this one of old man Seay's boys. Archie must have been
crazy with the heat. The fact is that he had been trying to quit
me for several days. We had exhausted every line of dissipation,
and when I decided that it was no longer possible to hold him, I
insulted and provoked him into a quarrel, and we were both
arrested. Licked me, did he? He couldn't lick his upper lip."