DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey

"You have saved my life," he says, getting up
out of his chair, like he had a notion to step over and
thank him fur it, but was somehow not quite sure
how that would be took.
The colonel looks at him silent fur a second, and
then he says, without smiling:
"Do you flatter yourself it was because I think
it worth anything?"
The doctor don't answer, and then the colonel
says:
"Has it occurred to you that I may have saved
it because I want it?"
"WANT it?"
"Do you know of any one who has a better right
to TAKE it than I have? Perhaps I saved it because
it BELONGS to me--do you suppose I want any one
else to kill what I have the best right to kill?"
"Tom," says Doctor Kirby, really puzzled, to
judge from his actions, "I don't understand what
makes you say you have the right to take my life."
"Dave, where is my sister buried?" asts Colonel
Tom.
"Buried?" says Doctor Kirby. "My God, Tom,
is she DEAD?"
"I ask you," says Colonel Tom.
"And I ask you," says Doctor Kirby.
And they looked at each other, both wonderized,
and trying to understand. And it busted on me
all at oncet who them two men really was.
I orter knowed it sooner. When the colonel
was first called Colonel Tom Buckner it struck me I
knowed the name, and knowed something about it.