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He was late , and Lucy said wearily , `` I 've got a headache to-night . Do you mind if we stay out here in the cool ? '' He did n't , and his confident familiar planning took the place of Martin Eckles ' more exciting narratives . The next day , past noon , the proprietor of the Greenstream hotel left an excited group of men to stop Calvin as he drove in from Sugarloaf Valley . He cried : `` Eckles has been shot and killed . First they found the horse and buggy by the road , and then Martin Eckles . He had fallen out .