I knew that, at that point, he was going to put his fingers up into her; which he did for ten or fifteen seconds. He then said that he is going to do ... pap smear on her.He got up off his stool and went over to the cabinet to get some things. He came back over to her with a speculum and put it inside of her. I heard him ratchet the speculum open and he told her to relax. The assistant went around the doctor and got a light that was on wheels and brought it to the doctor and he adjusted the light. He was bleeding from a scalp wound that looked to be fairly recent. Hank and Bill jumped down from the buckboard and rushed to see what they could do to help the unconscious man.As they bent over the man, a bullet kicked up the dirt between them. A young girl's voice shouted, "STAND UP, AN' STICK YER HANDS IN THE AIR!"A pre-teen girl holding a rifle came out from behind some rocks and said, "Ya leave my pa alone! Ya've done kilt 'im an' robbed 'im! Ain't that enough devilment?"She came between. Bern wondered if the day, when she and Dan could be together in open freedom once more, would actually ever arrive. No more hiding, no more once a month meetings in the dark, she couldn't wait. How he would explain where he had been for three years to the family and friends was unfathomable, but she was sure he had concocted some plausible story.Since the call, the day had seemed to have become brighter, the sun, shooting through the window onto her skin, felt stronger. The room was airier and. His mood had turned quickly from good to bad. He felt really bad about what had happened and knew that usually, it took a long time for him and Adam to recover from these little fights, even when they didn’t really mean anything and to him, seemed completely insignificant in the grand scheme of things. He knew one thing though. He really wasn’t looking forward to the rest of the day. What was he going to say when he got home? He didn’t know but he knew he had to make things right.