Doc looked at the dried blood around the hole in Isaac Talbot's shirt. The bullet hit him on the left side of the abdomen. Doc twisted his mouth in thought as he further examined the old wound. Slowly he looked up to Percy Crump who stood by watching. "Well, he didn't die right away," Doc stated.

"Why do you think he was shot?" Crump asked.

"I don't know yet. We need to go through his pockets. Maybe there's a clue there," Doc said as he poked his fingers down into the dead man' vest pocket. It yielded nothing. He moved to the next pocket and felt something. Slowly he pulled the object out and held it up – a playing card.

"He was cheating!" Percy Crump acknowledged.

"It would seem so," Doc expressed.

Doc worked his way through other pockets and found another card, but then he noticed something else about the body, "What do you make of this?" Doc asked Percy. They both looked at an old scar that ran from Talbot's right temple to his forehead.

"Looks like he was hit hard with something," Crump replied.

"It sure does," Doc added. "You know a hard enough blow might have cause some brain damage," Doc stated.

"Interesting," Crump added.

Doc stood up and looked at the undertaker, "I think you can do your thing now," he said placing the cards in his jacket pocket. The doctor then washed his hands in a basin of water before he picked up his winter coat.

"I suppose a regular pine box will do," Crump said while covering Talbot with a cloth. Doc nodded. "Thanks for your help," the doctor said as he walked to the door. "I'll be at the marshal's office is you need me," he added and left he building.

Doc ambled down the boardwalk on his way to talk to Matt. He shook his head at the thought of Talbot cheating at cards and likely what caused his demise, however, he couldn't quite understand how he got into the mine and why he was left there to die.

As the doctor got closer to the jail, he noticed that Jonas was at his store. Doc frowned, "I thought I told you to stay in bed for a while," Doc grumbled to Jonas. The store owner looked up, "I feel just fine, Doc," he explained.

"Well, don't exert yourself," the doctor ordered. Jonas made a face and went back to straightening out the bolts of fabric. Doc was just about to leave when Jonas asked, "Did you find out what happened to that fellow in the mine?"

Doc turned and walked back to Jonas. He held up the cards. Jonas stared at the playing cards, "He was caught cheating!?"

Doc shrugged his shoulders, "Looks that way. But by whom, I don't know. I'm hoping once I talk to matt he'd be able to start to investigate the incident," Doc explained. Jonas just shook his head, "What a way to die," he said in a hushed voice.

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Festus and Newly followed Miller through the bush, but he was well ahead of the two lawmen as was able to get to the cabin and another shotgun before they could reach him.

Harvey Miller stepped out onto the little wooden stoop with the gun levelled at Festus and Newly. Both men stopped in their tracks. "Now put that gun down," Festus growled.

"You get off my land! I ain't goin' with you to dodge, so you can just get on those horses and get he hell out of here," Miller yelled.

"I am supposed to bring you back to Dodge. Now Matthew said I ain't supposed to thump you, but if you don't put that gun down, I'm liable to get you like an ugly on an ape," Festus said with his left eye scrunched up.

Miller took another step, this time Penelope appeared in the doorway with a cornhusk broom in her hands. "Harvey, you do as Festus tells you!" she barked.

"You shut up, woman," Harvey bickered back at his wife.

"Don't you talk back at me that way," Penelope yelled just before she swung the broom hard at Harvey's arm. Miller's attention was then turned to his wife who was now repeatedly beating Harvey with the broom. Miller tried to shield his head with his arm as she whacked her husband while yelling at him to let go of the shotgun. He finally gave in and crumpled to the ground.

Festus and Newly were quick to apprehend Milled and pull the shot gun out of his grasp. His bandaged hand could hardly hold the weapon. Miller sat on the ground and groaned. "Git to yer feet," Festus said pulling on Miller's arm to lift him. The old farmer's shoulders sagged in defeat.

Miller stood and steadied himself. He looked over his shoulder and glared at Penelope who stood with her broom tightly in her hand. "You better see Doc about that hand again," she growled before she nodded to Festus and Newly to take Harvey to town. "Let me know what happens to the old coot," she said as she entered the log cabin.

"Watch who you are calling an old coot!" Miller barked at his wife.

Newly watched over Miller as Festus removed his saddle from the horse he road out on over to Ruth - he smiled the whole time he saddled the mule. Newly rolled his eyes as he nudged Harvey toward the unsaddled horse.

Once Festus was up onto his saddle he watched Miller as Newly climbed up onto his horse. Miller begrudgingly followed.

The trio began their journey back to Dodge City and Harvey Miller was in a foul mood. "I need those things I took from Doc," he grumbled.

"You tell that to Matthew," Festus quipped.

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Matt sat on the corner of his desk looking at the cards that Doc found on Isaac Talbot's body. "Well this thickens the plot, doesn't it," he said to Doc.

"There's another thing, Matt," Doc said as he brushed his moustache with his right hand and looked at the marshal.

"And what's that?" Matt asked.

"Sometime ago, Isaac must have been hit pretty hard on the head. He has a rather large scare across here," Doc pointed to his own head. "I think that whatever caused that, must have been enough of a blow to maybe cause brain damage. Perhaps that is why he all of a sudden changed on Clarence," Doc suggested.

"I guess we'd better ask C.C then," Matt said as he stood up to get his hat and then find Clarence Cox.