Matt, Festus and Newly carefully manoeuvred Doc back into his office and placed him on the examination table. Kitty gently brushed some unruly curls of his greying hair back into place. She watched Newly as he examined the wound. Newly shook his head, "That's awfully deep."

Matt and Festus exchanged looks. "Come on Matthew. Ol' widow Miller gots some explaining to do..."

"We'll be back as soon as possible." Matt spoke with some reassurance in his voice and both lawmen left the office in search of Beth Miller.

Kitty stepped closer to Newly. "Why would she do this?" she spoke abruptly and curtly.

Newly straightened his back and looked at Kitty. With a calming tone in his voice he spoke, "My guess from what Doc said, is she's the one who came back to finish Louie off but Doc stopped her." His brown eyes were filled with concern and not just for Doc, but the whole situation.

A weak voice lifted from Doc on the table. "You're right, Newly. She killed the others too..." He was barely audible.

Kitty bent over him and looked him directly in his half opened eyes. "Doc? You gonna be all right?" Slowly the doctor nodded as she held her hand to his cheek. She smiled weakly. He smiled back and blinked at her before closing his eyes again.

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Matt and Festus reached the alley between Doc's stairs and the Long Branch. Festus examined the ground looking for signs of where Beth Miller went. "Looky here, Matthew." He pointed to a set of foot prints that headed out the back of the alley.

Matt knelt down on one knee and adjusted his hat back on his head while examining the foot prints left in the sand. "If Doc is right about widow Miller, just how do we go about stopping her?" Matt's question as more rhetorical - he didn't even have an answer on what to do with a woman that has committed three ghastly murders.