He says Rickard killed Bisbee in self-defense."
"Oh," said Patten. And then, shifting in his chair: "If Galloway says
so, I guess you are right in letting the Kid go."
And, a trifle hastily it struck Virginia, he switched talk into another
channel, telling of the case on which he had been out to-day, enlarging
upon its difficulties, with which, it appeared, he had been eminently
fitted to cope. There was an amused twinkle in John Engle's eyes as he
listened.
"By the way, Patten," the banker observed when there came a pause,
"you've got a rival in town. Had you heard?"
"What do you mean?" asked the physician.
"When I introduced you just now to our Cousin Virginia, I should have
told you; she is Dr. Page, M.D."
Again Patten said "Oh," but this time in a tone which through its plain
implication put a sudden flash into Virginia's eyes. As he looked
toward her there was a half sneer upon the lips which his scanty growth
of beard and mustache failed to hide. Had he gone on to say, "A
_lady_ doctor, eh?" and laughed, the case would not have been altered.
"It seems so funny for a girl to be a doctor," said Florence, for the
first time referring in any way to Virginia since she had flown to the
door, expecting Norton alone. Even now she did not look toward her
kinswoman.
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