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`` Yours , DOCTOR DICK . '' The couriers left as soon as the letters were finished , and having seen them depart Doctor Dick went over to the hotel to get his supper , which Loo Foo had ordered for him , after which he returned , looked at his patient , gave him a dose of medicine , and , throwing himself upon his bed , was soon fast asleep , wholly oblivious it seemed of the dead man and the sufferer within a few feet of him . The courier on the trail of Landlord Larry found him and his half-hundred miners trailing the mountains and valleys over in search of some trace of the coming of the road-agents to the scene of the tragedy , and their going therefrom . But the search of the evening before , and up to the arrival of Wall at noon , when they had gone into camp , had been wholly in vain . Not a hoof-track could be found of the road-agents ' horses , nor a place where they had lain in wait until the stage came along . Landlord Larry was not one to waste energy upon impossibilities , and after reading Doctor Dick 's letter he decided to return with his men to Last Chance . They set out soon after the midday rest and arrived in Last Chance just as all was in readiness for the burial of Dave Dockery and Brassy , for a double funeral was to be had .