Chapter 28

When Henry Kolester came out of the bathroom, Abegail was gone from his bed. And she was nowhere in evidence for the remainder of his fall 1934 visit to the ranch. He left without seeing her again.

Stanfield Walker visited the ranch in late October 1934, in keeping with the reservation he had made the previous year. And Abegail Rolando Raven Wolf married Stanfield Profit Walker in the chapel of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., on December 22, 1934. The wedding was quickly arranged, and the wedding party was small. Just as the photograph Abegail had seen on J. Henry Kolester's nightstand was utterly revealing, as was the official wedding photograph. Everyone lined up on the verdant lawn outside the Gothic-style brownstone chapel—from the few in the groom's family who deigned to make the trip to Washington from New Hampshire, including his two sour-faced old maid sisters; to Dan and Hammer Raven; to Aunt Martha and her Thaddeus; to even the groom himself—looked dazed and confu