Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 February 1899 — Page 7

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CHAPTER I.—Lieutenant Loring of the regular army, having been jilted by Geraldlne Allyn during his cadet days at West Point, I* ordered to Arizona. IT and III.—Lieutenant Wake arrests a deserter. Hlgglns, whom a Mexican girl. Pancha. attempts to protect.

CHAPTER IIL

Three days later, just at sundown, the loungers at Sancho's were treated to a eciihution. (Jp from tfae south, the old Tdchod itrail, came, dusty, travel stained and weary, half a troop of cavalry, escorting apparently some pereon•ge of distinction, for be was an object of tbe utmost care and attention on the part of the lieutenant commanding and every man in tbe detachment As tbe oavalcade approached tbe dan oolored walls of t,ho corral and without a word or sign to tbe knot of curioas spectators gathered at the barroom door filed away to tho spot where wandering commands of hom were accustomed to bivouac for tho night (tentswould have been superfluous in that dry, dewless atmosphere) the women, whispering together behind their screened window place, stared tbe harder at sight of tbe leaders. One was Lieutenant Blake—no mistaking him— the longest legged man in Arizona. Another was big Sergeant Feeney, a veteran who bad seen better days and duties, but served his flag in the deserts of tbe Gila as sturdily as ever he fongbt along the Shenandoah throe years before.

Between those two, dapper, slender, natty, with his hat set jauntily on one side and his mustache and imperial twirled to tho proportions of toothpicks, rode a third cuvalier whom every one recognized instantly as tbe fugitive of I Camp Cooke, the urgently sought Captain Nevins, and, though Nevins' arms! and legs were untrnmmeled by shackles of any kind, it was plain to see that he was a helpless prisoner. He had parted with his belt and revolver. His spurs were ravished from his boels, and his bridle rein, cut in two, was shared between Blake and his faithful sergeant.

Behind these three rodo another set. Sandwiched between two troopers was a man whom Sancho's people well remembered as Nevins' clerk and assistant, despite the fact that a bushy beard now covered tho face that was smooth shaved in the halcyon days nf the supply camp. Then came somo 80 horsemen in loug. straggling col unit) of twos, while straight from the flank to the gate of tho corral, silent and even somber, rode the engineer, Lieutenant Loring. To him Sancbo whipped off his silver laoed sombrero and bowed, while two jaded looking vaqueros, after one loug yet furtive stare, glanced quickly at each other and sidled away to the nearest aperture in the wall of tbe ranch, which happeued to bo the dining room door.

Loring mechanically touched his hat brim in recognition of the ranebkeeper's obeisance, but there was no liking In his eye. At the gate ho slowly, somewhat utility, dismounted, for it was evident lit* had ridden loug and far. The roan with hanging head tripped eagerly yet wearily to his accustomed stall, and a swarthy Mexican unloosed at once the oinolm and removed tbe horsebai* bridle. Thus Sancho and the eugiueex were left by themselves, thmgh itiquis itivu ranch folk sauntored to the gateway and peered after them into thv. corral. Over at tho little clump of wil lows Blake's men were throwing their carbines across their shoulders and dismounting as they reached the old familiar ppot. and Loring cast one look thither before he spoke. "Who wero the two men who followed me?" he calmly asked, and his eyes, though red rimtued and inflamed by the dust of the desert, looked straight into the dark face of the aggrieved Sancho. "Surely I know not. senor tenieute." He had dropped the "capitan" as too transparent flattery. "Don't lie,

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dollars, "and Loring tossed an eagle into tbe ready palm. "That's $80, and I shall want that horse again in morning." "Tomorrow, senor! Why, be will not be fit to go."

But to this observation Mr. Loring made no reply. Straight from Sancbo's nide he walked down the corral, baited behind two rangy, hard looking steeds that showed Mill the effects of recent severe usage, and these be studied coolly and thoroughly a few minutes, while, peering from two nnrnw slits in the ranch wall between th# windows, two sun tanned frontiersmen as closely itudied him. With these latter peeping from the shaded window "the wife of mv brother," exchanging with them comments iu low, guarded *qqos. In tbe adjoining room, a bedroom, a girl of perhaps 10, slender, graceful and dark eyed, peeped iu the opposite direction over toward tbe willow* where Blake's men were now unsaddling, whence presently, with giant stride*, came Blake himself, stalking over tbe sand.

Sancho, despite his anxious scrutiny of Loring'# silent nioverneutSv saw the coming officer and prepared hit countenance for smile*. But, with a face act and forbidding, Blake went itcroly by, taking no notice of the proprietor, and made directly for tbe little group now muttering at the dining room door. The loungers, *nnie of whom had deserted the supper table for a sight of tbe captives and the cavalcade, sidled right and Wt, a* though to avoid hi*eyes, for Into each face, most of them hangdog

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visages, he gazed sharply, as tbongL in search of some one, yet never faltered in his stride. Back from her barred window shrank tbe young girl as the tall soldier came within a dozen paces. To one side or another, smoke inhaling and striving to look unconcerned, edged the swarthy constituents of tbe group, and with never a word to one of them, straight through their midst and tbe doorway beyond, went Blake, catching the three peepers, "tbe wife of my brother" and the brace of palpable cutthroats at their loopholes. So unexpected was tbe move that it had not even occurred to one of the creatures at the door to mntter a word of warning. So engrossed were the three in their scrutiny that Blake's entrance was unheard.

True, be bad discarded boots and spurs, and his feet were incased in soft Apache moccasins. Tbe floor, too, was earthen, but he made no effort at stealth, and in tbe gloom and shadow of the low roofed room it was for a moment difficult to distinguish tbe human figures against tbe opposite wall. It was his ear that first gave warning, for low, yet distinct, be heard the words: "If he'd taken any horse but that roan, or knew less about riding, we'd 'a' caught him 20 miles out, and he'd never 'a' caught Nevins. Dash dash tbe whole dashed blue bellied outfit and be dash dash

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dashed souls!" and tbe concentrated spite and hatred of the speaker hissed in every syllable. 'Tain't a question of what wecould not do. What can wo do? He's got the money, and plenty of it, cached somewhere about the old camp, and $500 of it's mine. That's what I want. I don't care a d—n what they do with him so long as tbey don't send him to prison, where we can't nail him. That's what that bloody court will do, though, and I know it." "How d'you know," fleroely demanded tho other, 'nless you've been in tbe army, which you ewear you haven't? Whore'd you desort from? Oome, own up now, "and, turning for an instant from his peephole, the speaker became suddenly awaro of the silent form of Lieutenant Blake. "None of your dashed bnsinessl" began the other, when a harsh "Shut up!" brought him arouud in amaze, and he, too, confronted the dark figure standing like a signpost between them and tbe violet light beyond tbe open doorway. Instinctively tbe hands of both men sought their pistol butts, but Blake

Loring'* fist had landed full on Hiqgin*' Jowl anil sent him like a log to the floor.

made never a move. Tho woman, looking around for tbe cause of tbe sudden silence, caught sight of tbe statuesque intruder and, with a low ary, threw her shawl over her head and, bending almost double, with outstretched, groping hands, scurried to where tbe mission made blanket bung at tbe doorway of tbe bedroom aud darted through the aperture like a rabbit to its form, tbe tbe folds of the heavy wool falling behind her.

And still the tall lieutenant neither spoke nor moved. His revolver bung at bis right hip, bis bunting knife slept in its sheath, bat bis hands sat jauntily on his thigbs. The stern, set look of his clear cnt face bad given place to something liko a grin of amusement First at one, then at tbe other, of tbe two bewildered worthies be gazed, looking each deliberately from head to fool as tbey hovered there, both irresolute and disconcerted, one of them visibly trembling.

There was a doorway loading into the room in which was set tbe table for stage passengers of the bettor cla*s,Vffloers and tbe few ladies who bad ventured to follow their lords into faraway Arizona, or tbe gente fine, which ineluded amaxons whose money oould pay their way pretty much anywhere and was made pretty much anyhow. But that room was empty, and tbe one beyond it, tho bar, bad only one or two occupants, too far away to see

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going on. I There were a doorway and a swinging screen of dirty canvas just beyond tbe 1 loophole lately occupied by "tbe wife of my brother," a doorway that gave I on tbe corral, and to each of these each silent "tough" bad given a quick,furtive gl&noe, but not a step was taken. How long tbe strain of tbe situation might have lasted there is no saying. It was broken by tbe sudden lifting of that

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dirty canvas screen, as sudden and perceptible a start on the part of each of tbe confronted men and the quick entrance of tbe engineer. For another second or two no word was spoken. Loring's eyes were evidently nnable at tbe instant to penetrate tbe gloom. Then he recognized Blake, then gradually tbe two men at tbe wall, and then at last Blake spoke. "There are your followers, Loring."

A moment's careful scrutiny then a nod of assent was Loring's answer. "Now, then, you two," said Blake— "I've suspected you before.

than suspect you. You, fine long villain, I warn never to come nosing abont our camp again, and you, the shorter, I'll trouble to oome into camp forthwith. No, don't draw that pistol unless yon want a dozen bullets through yon. Half a troop is right here at my back. Your soldier name was Higgins, and you're a deserter from Cram's battery, New Orleans."

For a moment there was a silence broken only by tbe hard breatbing of tbe two cornered men then came a flash, a sharp report, a piercing scream as the lithe Mexican girl sprang forth from behind the blanket and burled herself on Blake, a pantherlike leap of tbe accused man under cover of the flash and smoke, a thwack like the sonnd of the bat when it meets a new baseball full in tbe middle, and Loring'sfist bad landed full on Higgins* jowl and sent him like a log to tbe floor.

CHAPTER IV.

Tbe court martial that met at Camp Cooke in compliance with orders from division headquarters at Frisco had three weeks later practically finished the case of Brevet Captain Nevins, and that debonair person, wbo had appeared before it on the first day suave, laughing and almost insolently defiant, had wilted visibly aa day after day the judge advocate unfolded the mass of evidence against him.

All that Nevins thought to be tried for was a charge of misappropriation of public funds and property, and it was his purpose to plead in bar of trial that he had offered to make complete restitution, to replace every missing item and doubly replace if need be every dollar. This indeed he bad lost no time in doing tbe moment be was handed over to tbe post commander two days after the exciting episode at Sancbo's, but he coupled with the offer a condition that all proceedings against him should be dropped, aud the veteran major commanding, while expressing entire willingness to receipt for any funds the accused might offer, would promise nothing whatever in return.

That Nevins should be charged with desertion and breach of arrest the acousod officer regarded as of small importance. He was merely going to Tucson ae fast as he could to get from business associates, as he termed 'them, the money deposited with them and .owed to him, and this must also excuse his having borrowed tbe major's best, horae.

His friends in congress would square all that for him, even if tbe court should prove obdurate. That grave charges should have followed him from a former sphere of operations that his record, while retained in tbe volunteer service until tbe spring of 1866 and assigned to some mysterions bureau functions in the south, should have been ventilated and made part and parcel of tbe charges that it should be shown that he as a newly commissioned officer of tbe army had made the journey from New Orleaus to the isthmus and thence to San Francisco with men whom be knew to be deserters from commands stationed in tho Crescent City that be should have gambled with them and associated with them and brought one of them all the way with him to Yuma and concealed from the military authorities his kuowledge of their crime that it should be proved that be was a professional "oard sharp," expert manipulator aud blackleg be never had contemplated as even possible, and yet, with calm and relentless deliberation, "that cold blooded, merciless martipet of a West Pointer, "as he referred to tbe judge advocate at an early stage in tbe proceedings, bad laid proof after proof before tbe court and left tbe case of tbe defense at the last without a leg to stand on.

And then Nevins dropped the debonair and donned tbe abject, for tbe one friend or adviser left to him in tbe crowded camp, an officer who said he always took tbe side of tbe under dog in a fight, had told him that iu its present temper that conrt, with old Turnbull as one of its leaders, would surely sentence him to a term of years at Alcatraz, as well as to dismissal from tbe military service of tbe United States. Dismissal be expected, but cared little for that. He bad money and valuables more than enough to begin life on anywhere, and the pickings of his accustomed trade were all too scant in Arizona. He needed a broader field and a crowding population for tbe: proper exercise of bis talents, and tbe uniform of tbe officer, after all, bad not proved to be so potent in lulling tbe suspicions of prospective victims aa be bad expected it might be.

But Alcatraz, a rock bound prison, a convict's garb, bard labor on soft diet— that was indeed appalling. "That man Loring bas made yon out an innate blackguard, Nevins. You've got to plead for mercy," said bis shrewd adviser, and Nevins saw tbe point and pleaded. He laid before tbe conrt letters from officers of rank speaking grate

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fully of his aid during the prevalence 8**® oonldn't go back on Mr. Cadger, at yellow fever in tbe gulf states. He b® daren't go back on my father. states. He begged tbe court to wait nntil be could •bow tbem tbe affidavits of many statesmen and soldier?, whom it would take months to bear from by mail, and there was tben no telegraph in Arizona. He begged for time, for pity, and tbe conrt was moved and wrote to Drum barracks for instructions and adjourned nntil tbe aniwer came, which it did by swift stage® and special courier within a week. "Advices from Washington say

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of him and suggest tbe extreme penalty of the law." And this being the advice of. Washington, was simply human nature that tbe court should experience a revulsion of feeling and consider itself bound to see that tbe poor fellow was not made to suffer martyrdom.

Most of tbe members were men from the volunteers or from the ranks. West Pointers were the exception, not the rule, in tbe line of the army for years after the war. Most of tbe court bad been the recipients of Nevins* exuberant hospitality atone time or other. He bad objected to the few wbo bad lost heavily to him at cards, and the objec tion had been sustained, and when tbe last day of tbe long session arrived and the sad eyed, pale faced, scrupulously groomed and dressed accused arose be fore the dignified array and tbe little line of enrious spectators to make his last plea a silence, not unmixed with a certain sympathy, fell upon all hearers, as in low voice and faltering accents the friendless fellow began his story. Partly from manuscript, whioh be seemed to find hard reading, but mainly as an extemporaneous effort, his remarks were substantially as follows: "I've come to make a olean breast of it, gentlemen. I'm not fit to wear your uniform. I never was. I never wanted to. It was practically forced upon me by men who ought to have known better, wbo did know better, but who did not care so long as tbey got me out of tbe way. My father as much as owned more than one congressman in York state. The Hon. Mr. Cadger of tbe military committee couldn't have been renominated if it hadn't been for him, and he didn't want me round home any more. He got me kept on bureau work long after all but a few volunteers were mustered out, and shoved me down to New Orleans, where I'd often been steam boating before the war. "I had the fever there when I was only 20. Perhaps he thought I oould get it again and that would be the end of me. If there's a worse place for a young offioer to start in than that infernal town was just after the war, it ain't on the map of these United States. I had the luck and tbe opportunities of tbe devil for nigh on to a year. I got more money aud learned more ways of getting it than I knew how to use, nnd then I got married. "A homeless woman, a woman with brains and good looks and education, married me for tbe position I could give her, I suppose. They told mo afterward she did it out of spite or desperation that she was a northern girl who had been employed as governess in an old southern fartily that was mined by the war that sho had a younger sister in New York whom she was educating—a girl who had a magnificent voice aud wanted to go on the stage—and all tbe money she could save went to her. She got employment when Ben Butler took command, for she knew all the southern families that bad money and plate and jewels and those that had nothing but niggers. "She fell in love, they told me afterward, with a swell colonel who came there on staff duty, for he cut a dash and made desperate Jove to her, until his wife got wind of it and came down there all of a sudden, just after the smash up of tbe Confederacy, and put a stop to bis fun. That was in May, and I got there iu July. Wo were married that winter, and I loaded her with tbe best I could buy and gave her all she could spend on her sister until she found out how my money was made there in cotton and cards. She thought —and I'd let her think so—that I had big property in tbe north. It was another womau gave her tbe tip, and then tbe trouble began. She swore we must give up the house we lived in, tbe horses aud carriage and go to a cheap boarding house. She got tho jewelers to take back tbe watch and all tbe trinkets I'd given her at their own valuation— about a quarter of what tbey oost me. She argued and pleaded and prayed and swore she'd confess the whole thing to General Sheridan, wbo came there right after the riots of 1866 and took com macd—and that would have sent me to tbe penitentiary. "There were regular officers in the deals besides me, and tbey got wind of it and tried to bribe bet, and she'd cry all night and mope all day and sweat she'd leave me unless I cut loose from tbe whole business and restored what I'd made. By God I I oouldn'tl I'd spent it! I was no worse than three or four others who bad eyes open to their opportunities—two of 'em in the regular army now—bang up swells, and at last I couldn't stand it and got to drinking, and tben 1 lost my card nerve, aud the money went with it, and it made me desperate—crazy, I reckon, for one night when I canie home drunk and she made a scene, I suppose I must have struck ber, and tben she took sick and got delirious, and I was horribly afraid, and so were my partners, that she'd give up tbe whole business so tbey got me leave of absenoe. "They saw me aboard tbe steamer tor New York. My money was running short and tbey gave me enough to place ber in a sanitarium on tbe Hudson and get ber sister with ber, and tben I oame back and bad lack followed. I was strapped, when tbe old man told me I'd have to go out and join my regiment, for be'd got me appointed in tbe regulars. Wby, some of Sheridan's officers, when tbey saw my name in tbe papers, wrote to stop it, but it was no nae. Tbe military committee In con

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far away as possible, and, yes, there were tbree deserters from Cram's battery aboard tbe steamer, so I learned, and one of tbem, tbe man yon call Higgins, wbo was betrayed to Lieutenant Blake by another deserter just as bad as

bim, was staking tbe other two, for 1 be bad money in plenty nntil after 1 had done with bim. "Wbat my life's been out here yon

that tbe congressional backers of tbe ac- know well enough —same as it was in bave declared themselves well rid' New Orleans, all luck and plenty at

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first, then all a collapse. I'm ruined now. When I bad hundreds and thousands, I helped everybody who wanted it. There are men iu Yuma and Tucson now whom I set on their pins, and they give me the cold shoulder. All that offer to tbe major was a bluff. They've got all my money. I haven't a cent anywhere, and so far as I'm personally concerned I don't care. If there was no one on earth dependent on me, I'd as lief you'd shoot me tomorrow. "But, gentlemen, there's the rub. 1 own it now. There's my poor wife and her sister. I've lied to tbem both. She got well at the sanitarium. She's believed my promises and she's come nil the way to San Francisco and was expecting me there when—when tbe bottom fell out of tbe whole business. She's there now—she and ber sister. They've got enough to pay their expenses perhaps a month or so, and that's all. I can make a living. I oan get along and provide for her if you'll only give me a chance. I know I deserve dismissal. That's all right, but for God's sake, gentlemen, don't send me to Alcatraz, don't put me in jail. Leave me free to work. There's men in this territory that owe me nearly $1,000 today. Let me gather that up and go to my wife--I— She's a good womau, gentlemen"—

And here the tears came starting from tbe pleading culprit's eyes, and one or two sympathetic souls about tbe rude tables sniffed suspiciously. "It ain't for me to talk of suoh things. Perhaps you won't believe me, but"—and he fingered the leaves of tbe blue bound copy of tbe regulations that lay to the left of the judge advocate's elbow—"I—I lqve that womau and I want to care for her, and take good oare of her. Look here," he continued, as with sudden, impulsive movement be unbuttoued his trim fitting, single breasted frock ooat and displayed a snowy shire bosom, on which sparkled and glistened a great diamond set in the style much affected by the "sporting gent" of the day. "See this diamoud. It cost $1,100 in San Francisco six months ago, and here this solitary," and he produced from an inner pocket an unquestionably valuable ring and, with trembling hands, laid tbem upon the table in front of tbe judge advocute, "and here," and he whipped from the waistband of his trousers a massive and beautiful watch.

There are all the valuables I have in tbe world. These I place iu the bauds of the worthy officer and gentleman who has only done his duty iu representing tbe government through thin long and painful trial. These I publicly turn over to him with tbe request that he personally band them to my poor wife as soon as he reaches San Francisco as earnest of my intention to lead an honest life ami to care for her in tho future. And now, gentlemen, I've nothing to ask for myself—nothing but liberty to go and work for her. I'm not fit to sit with such as you.

He finished aud, quivering as with suppressed emotion, turned his back upon tho court, pressed his handkerchief to bis streaming eyes and groped his way to the little table set apart for bim a few yards to the left of tbe judge advocate. The silence among the members and along tbe benches whereon were seated the dozen spectators was for a moment unbroken by a sound except a little shuffling of feet. Then one veterau member cleared bis throat with a "hem" of preparation to speak, yet hesitated.

The junior officer of the court, a lieutenant of cavalry, slowly stretched forth bis hand, picked up the solitaire and eyed it with an assumption of oritical yet respectful interest. The president, a grizzled, red faced veteran, presently

"Gentlemen, Pve nothing to ask for myself." stole a glance at Tnrnbull, who eat with stolid features immediately on his right. One by one tbe nine members (two of tbe original 11 having beeu

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ohallenged an excused) began to look: oautiously about them. A captain of infantry was observedto be very red about the eyelids, but that might have been, and possibly was, tbe result of cocktails. Loring alone remained in the same position. He had half turned his back to Nevins when tbe latter began to

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elbow on tbe taoiu aud bis head on hi* baud, bis eyes shaded under the curving palm against tbe glare of light that came from without. There was no room or building big enough for the pnrpose at tbe post, and the court had held its session under a brace of hospital tent flies stretched on a framework adjoining the offioe of the major commanding, and Camp Cooke, as a rule, looked on from afar.

The spectators who ventured beneath the shade were officers of the little garrison, the sutler and half a dozen "oasuals" of the civilian persuasion, among whom, if not among tbe members of the court, Nevins' harangue had created an undoubted sensation, for glances indicative of surprise if not of incredulity passed among them.

At last, as though he felt that something must be said rather than that he knew what was appropriate to say, the presiding offioer addressed the member wbo had cleared bis throat. "You were about to say something, major?" "I—er—should like to ask the aocused whether bis wife is informed of his—er—predicament."

And Nevius, slowly turning, answered: "I wrote last week confessing everything. It will be a relief to her that I am no longer in the army. She said she could uover look an offioer in tbe face." There was another pause, then Nevins spoke again: "I hope I have not imposed too innoh on tho judge advocato. I have asked because ho is the only gentleman here* who is not entirely a stranger to my poor wife."

Then all eyes were on Loring as he slowly dropped his hand and looked with undisguised astonishment at tbe accused. Blake, a spectator, suddenly drew his loug legs under him and straightened up iu his seat. It was needless for Loring to speak. His eyes questioned. "I do not menu that Mr. Loring knows my wife, but sho has heard of him from her sister. They hoped to find him iu San Francisco."

Loring had picked up a pencil as he turued. Its point was resting ou tbe pine topped table. IIo never spoke. His eyes, still steadily fixed upon tho twitohing face of Novins, questioned further, and every man present strained his ears for the next word. "I should explain—her eister is Mies Geruldine Allyn."

And with a snap that was hoard all over tho assemblage tho lend of Loring's pencil brokn short off. He sat staring at Nevins, whito and stunued. [TO UK CONTlNUKP.]

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