“Henry was not well, and in the early fall he knew he hadn’t long to live.  He wrote out the story and left it in his desk for me to read after he had gone, and as he added to it from time to time, when I got it it was almost up to date.

“Judson came back to the Clark ranch in September, bringing along an actress named Beverly Carlysle, and her husband, Howard Lucas.  There was considerable talk, because it was known Jud had been infatuated with the woman.  But no one saw much of the party, outside of the ranch.  The Carlysle woman seemed to be a lady, but the story was that both men were drinking a good bit, especially Jud.

“Henry wrote that Hines had been in the East for some months at that time, and that he had not heard from him.  But he felt that it was only a truce, and that he would turn up again, hell bent for trouble.  He made a will and left the money to me, with instructions to turn it over to Hines.  It is still in the bank, and amounts to about thirty-five thousand dollars.  It is not mine, and I will not touch it.  But I have never located Clifton Hines.

“In the last entry in his record I call attention to my brother’s statement that he did not regard Clifton Hines as entirely sane on this one matter, and to his conviction that the hatred Hines then bore him, amounting to a delusion of persecution, might on his death turn against Judson Clark.  He instructed me to go to Clark, tell him the story, and put him on his guard.

“Clark and his party had been at the ranch only a day or two when one night Hines turned up at Dry River.  He wanted the fifty thousand, or what was left of it, and when he failed to move Henry he attacked him.  The two men on the place heard the noise and ran in, but Hines got away.  Henry swore them to secrecy, and told them the story.  He felt he might need help.

“From what the two men at the ranch told me when I got there, I think Hines stayed somewhere in the mountains for the next day or two, and that he came down for food the night Henry died.

“Just what he contributed to Henry’s death I do not know.  Henry fell in one room, and was found in bed in another when the hands had been taking the cattle to the winter range, and he’d been alone in the house.

“When I got there the funeral was over.  I read the letter he had left, and then I talked to the two hands, Bill Ardary and Jake Mazetti.  They would not talk at first, but I showed them Henry’s record and then they were free enough.  The autopsy had shown that Henry died from heart disease, but he had a cut on his head also, and they believed that Hines had come back, had quarreled with him again, and had knocked him down.