Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 February 1899 — Page 6

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C'H.M'TKH I. -JJcut' iiaiit Lorlnjj of tlic regular irny. luivinjr tcn jilted by Geraldine Allyn duriiii! )ii td iys at West Point. Is ordered to Ari/oii!!. II and III.—Lieutenant trret a deserter. Hijrsrins. whom ii Mei-,ui trirl. Panehsi. attempts tt protect. IV -Captain Nevins. iijjpoinU'd to the regular army from civil lift', a trambler arid an embezzler nf ^ovc-riiincnl funds, l.s tried by court martial. 11'' rtiake* a eonfession. stjtt lnj that he was always had. hut hud married (rood woriiai! lie a.sks Lieutenant Lorirttf, Juflff advocate of tin- court, to carry his watch and mine Jewels to his wife, stating that Lot-ins: is aciiualnted with her sister. Mis-t (jeraIdine Allyn. V.- Lorinx accepts the rust, putting the jewels in an envelope and pla'-liiK the watch and jewels in a safe.

CHAPTER VI.

The members of the court had scattered to their posts, all save the veteran president and Colonel Tnrnbull, tbe department inspector. Lieutenant Blake, to his disgust, had been sent scouting up the Hassayampa, where the Apaches bad been some days before, but couldn't be found now, it being the practice of those nimble warriors to get far from tl* t.rene of their deviltries without ucedles.s delay, and the rulo of the powers that were, until General Crook taught them wiser methods, was to promptly order cavalry to the spot where tlx Indians had been instead of wlieie they had presumably gone. A buckbonrd en route to Date Creek, with two nf the iirrny that had sat in jndginent on Nevin.-, had been "held up" at night, bv a gang of half a dozen desper(Mines and (.be three passengers relieved of their valuables, consisting of one gold watch and two of silver, one seal ring, three levolvers, three extra sized cantei us, two gallon demijohn and in the aggregate three gallons of whisky.

Tiie victims had submitted to the inovitahle, sti far as their gold and silver were concerned, but pathetically pointed out to the robber chief the hardship of being beieft at, one fell swoop of the expensive and only consolation the country atTorded, and despite his wrath and disappointment at finding that the gentlemen had already been robbed—two of them having spent four nights hand running at the post poker room—the leader was not so destitute of fellow feeling as to condemn the hapless trio to the loss of even the necessaries of life, and mercifully handed back half gallon. "Wc hope to catch somo of you gentlemen when you haven't been playing poker,"said lie, striving to stifle his chagrin. "Who got itall, anyhow?" ho asked, with an eye to future business. "Ah, ves! Might have known it,"be continued in response to the ruoful admission of ono of the party. "Wonderfully smart outfit that at Cooke, wonderfully—most as smart as some of our people «t Suncho's. Well, st) long, Rentlemen. If any of your friends are coming this way, recommend our place, won't you? We've treated you as well its we know bow. Drive on, Johnny. Nobody else will stop you this side of Date. Tbev know we got here first."

Arizona was an interesting region in those days of development that followed close on the heels of the war. Hundreds of experienced hands had been thrown out of employment by the return of pence, and the territories overflowed with outlaws, red and white, male and female. It was taking title's life in one's bands to venture pistol shot beyond the confines of a military post It was impossible for paymasters to carry funds without a strong escort of cavalry. Tbe 'only currency in the territory was thnt put, in circulation by the troops or paid to contractors through the quartermaster's department. Kven Wells-Fargo, pioneer expressmen of the Pacific slope, sent their messengers autl agents no farther then than the Colorado river, and Uncle Sam's mail stage was rohbod so

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often that a registered package bad not, reported to tbe commanding grown to be considered only an adver-

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cnced soldier whether he had requested an escort in view of the fact that he was burdened with valuables that, though small in bulk, were convertible into cash that was anything but small in am tint.

To such queries Mr. taring, who bad an id avet- nt to answering questions ns to what he was going to do, merely hmvi assent and changed the subject.

Lieutenant lib-asou. an o'llcer who had recently joined the infantry and was one cf Kevins* victims, a man of unusual assurance, despite his few mouths of service, had persisted in his queries to tbe extent of demanding frooi what «juart» l.ering expe-eted toget an escort, itlnko l» awav at the Hassayaiapa and no other cavalry being within (SO miles, and Jicascn felt res?:HfoI. though he deftly hid the fart, because the engineer ign red tbeqttes:iou uutii it bad I••:on thnee repeated. tu then he Ktisd. niewiiat tartly, "Thai is my affair, Mr. iimson."

Kneryt thought that Loriug wan decidedly unsociable, aud smnr went #9 far as to call hjtu supercilious mui haughty. "Too blacked big to mingle with

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said Gleason, who bad never seen a skirmish. Tbis latter gentleman took it much amiss tbat Loring bad won tbe shoulder straps of a first lieutenant tbe day be first donned his uniform (many vacan cies then existing in the corps of engi neers), while Gleason and others with what be called war records were still second lieutenants. Officers of the caliber of Turn Lull and Starke saw much to respect in the grave, silent, thoughtful young officer, but tbe juniors—the captains and lieutenants—though they bad marked tbe ease and ability witb which Loring bandied what was probably bis, first case as judge advocate, nevertheless agreed that he was "offish" toward tbe general run of "the line,' held himself aloof as though be considered himself of superior clay, didn't drink, smoke, swear or play cards and was therefore destitute of most elements of soldier companionship as then and there defined. It was .resented, too, by almost everybody that Loring would not say when and how be expected to leave Camp Cooke. He bad come on Sancho's famous roan, bnt bad returned that animal by special courier without delay.

Starke and Turnbull were informed, but at Loring's request saw fit to hold their tongues. No one should know, he had said to them, if he was to be responsible for those valuables. It might leak out, and tbo veteran officers saw the point. The juniors could not well ask them (the veterans), but they could aud did ask Loring and held it up against him in days to come that bo declined to be confidential

There was a man at Cooke who cculd have told them Loring showed wisdom in his observance of caution, and that man was Kevins, who had been sent for by the commanding officer the morning after the adjournment of the court and subjected to a questioning and a lecture that nobody else heard, bnt that everybody speedily know must have been severe, because Nevius, lately so meek and lachrymose, was seen to go to his tent flushed witb rage, and then from within those canvas walls bis voice was heard uplifted in blasphemy and execration. Nor did he take advantage of garrison limits the rest of that* day, nor once again that day appear outside.

At so great a distance from civilization trifles prove of absorbing interest aud callers came to see what they "could do for him" aud learn for themselves, and Nevins' face was black as a storm antl his language punctuated with profanity.. He raved about tyranny and oppression, but vouchsafed no intelligible explanation of what he confessed to be tbo commanding officer's latest order—that he was remanded to close arrest. Let it bo here explained for the benefit of the lay reader that when an officer is accused of a crime or even of a misdemeanor he is placed in arrest, which means that ho is suspended for tbo time being from the exercise of command, tuust not wear a sword and most confine himself to certain limits—to his tent or quarters if in close arrest, as for one week the officer generally is, and to tbe limits of tbe parado or garrison if allowed out for exercise.

No sentry is posted, for an officer is supposed to be on honor to observe tbe prescribed restrictions, and only when he breaks bis arrest by visiting tbe quarters of somo brother officer or by going outside of camp is he in danger of other humiliation. To none of bis few visitors did Kevins reveal the fact that o!^ the previous night, if not before, he had broken his arrest and gone far out on the mesa, back of tbe post

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Loring should come to see me," railed Nevius "I have important matters— papers and messages from my wife— and be holds aloof. By God, Gleason, you tell him for me tbat if be can't treat me decently and come to see me night, I demand that be hand back those diamonds and things —do you understand?"

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And tbat message Mr. Gleason, who of all things loved a sensation, faithfully promised to deliver, and fully meant to but the game at tbe sutler's develoiwd into a big oue tbat eventful night. Jack pots were tbe rule before the drums of tba infantry hammered out first call for tattco, and in tbe ith sorbing nature of his occupation he never thought of Nevins' charge except as something to te attended to later, and uot until guard mount of another day, when his bead was muddled witb the potatims of an all night session and tbe befogging cocktails of the morning, did Mr Gleason approach the engineer upon tbe subject, and then there was a scene.

Loring was standing at tbe moment in fTimt of tb« rude brush and adobe quarters of Major Starke conversing with two or three officers, or rather listening in silence to their observations. Turnbull was seated under the shelter of a sort of arbor made or rramowork and canvaa» signing some papers. The president of the court had disappeared, and a rumor was flitting about the post

wen who fought all through the war that early in tbe morning, before the the reservation, with tbe warning that vbile he was a fchoolbojat tbe hint dawn in factj that bardy ?eteran had jT

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By this time Camp Cooke waked up to the fact that it had tieen dozing. While its own little force of cavalry was scouting the valleys of tbe Verde and the Salado to the east aud Blake's troop bad been rushed up the Hassayampa to the north rnd there was no oue apparently to do escort duty through the deserts along tho Gila, Camp Cooke and the outlying prowlers believed that those postly trinkets which Nevins bad begged Mr. Loring to take to bis wife would uot be withdrawn from the quartermaster's safe, much less sent forth upon their perilous way.

Not until after Colonel Turnbull and the engineer had ridden off southward, escorted by a sergeant witb six tough looking troopers, not uutil after Loring's announcement that tbe jewels themselves bad been sent ahead, not until after Mr. Gleason had been remanded to his quarters to "sober up," aud tbe adjutant dispatched to Captain Nevina with tbe intimation tbat if his tooandible imprecations were not stopped he and his tent would be transferred to a corner of tbe corral, did Camp Cooke learn tbat Major Starke bad sent a fly by night courier after Blake, recalling bis troop that it bad baited on tbe stream ten miles above t'^e post, re?ting all afternoon and evening, had ridden silently in toward camp an hour after midnight, and, after receiving certain instructions from Starke and a visit from Loring, bad gone on southward, silently as it came, accompanied by tbe presiding officer of tbe court, who hated day marches and tbe sun scorched desert, and leaving escort for those who were still to follow.

There watt mild surprise in camp, but untold wrath and vituperation along the line to Sancbo's, for from far and near the choicest renegades of Arizona had been flocking to the neighborhood, only to find themselves outwitted by tbe engineer. Not half an hour after the burst of blasphemy from Nevius' tent informal tbe camp tbat something more bad happened to agitate anew bis sorely ruffled temper, and the story flew from lip to Hp tbat it was because tbe precious jewels were already on their way to Frisco, guarded presumably by Blake and 40 carbines, a swarthy half breed courier spurred madly southward from the outlying tuoetoo the borders of

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pnelied ahead in saddle, escorted by I most of Blake's troop, which had unexpectedly returned during the previous night, bnt merely unsaddled, and after a "rub down, feed and water" bad gone on again. If that were true, tbey bad left as silently and mysteriously as tbey came, and only a corporal's guard remained.

Had Gleason been intent on anything but tbe manner in which be could make his communication most public and significant, if not offensive, be would have noticed tbat both Turnbull and Loring were in riding dress. But while it*could not be said of him tbat in bis condition be was capable of seeing only one thing at a time those things which be did see were duplicate images of tbe same object, and he lurched up to tbe dual Loring and tbe bazy figures tbat seemed floating about him, and with an attempt. at majestic impressiveness thickly said, "Mr. Loring, I'm bearerof a message from my fri'n Mr.—Captain Nevius d'mauding the me'dy't r'turn of tbe diamon's an valu'bles be placed in your p'session."

"Mr. Lorlwj, I'm bearer oj a message from my fri'n, Mr.—Captain Nevins." Other officers withiu earshot heard, as Gleason intended they should hear, and turned instantly toward the group, all eyes on tbe two—the flushed, nwaying subaltern in fatigue uniform, the calm, deliberate man in riding dress. A faint color, as of auuoyance, quickly spread over Loriug's face, but for a moment he spoke not a word. Augrily the post ommander came hurrying forth, bent viu the prompt annihilation of bis luckless subaltern, aud was about to speak, but Loring interposed. "One moment, sir, I beg." Then turning again on Gleason the engi«eer looked him calmly over from head to foot for a second or two, and then as calmly said: "Too late, sir. They've gone."

CHAPTER VII

Three days after tbe adjournment of Nevius' court martini Camp Cooke had dropped back to tho mouotone of its everyday life. Everybody was gone except tho now sullen,complaining prisoner and the little garrison of two companies of infantry. Vanished even were all but two or three of tbe colony of gamblers aud alleged prospectors, who occupied, to the auuoyance of tbe commanding officer aud tbe scandal of the sutler, a little ranch just outsido the reservation lines, whither venturesome spirits from the command were oft enticed and fleeced of their money that the authorized purveyor of high priced luxuries considered bis legitimate pluuder.

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the Teuiente Loring's party when it came along—there were no valuables witb it. Tbey had been sent witb tbe cavalry hours before tbe dawn.

Yes, even tbe sealed record of the court must have been sent at tbat time, too, for at 10 o'clock in the morning, when Colonel Turnbull aud Mr. Loriug mounted und gravely saluted tbe cap raising group of officers as tbey rode away from the major's quarters, it was observed that Loriug had uot even saddlebags, aud tbe major's striker admitted tbat he bad hoisted tbe lieutenant's valise to tbe pommel of a trooper's saddle at 2 o'clock iu the morning. Various were the theories and conjectures at the sutler's all the rest of the day as to the information possessed by Lieutenant Loring which led to such extreme precaution.

Tbe major was close mouthed and for him rather stern. He held aloof from his juniors all day long and seemed to be keepiug an eye and ear attent on Nevius That officer's conduct was a puzzle. Six months before be was the personification of all that was lavish, hospitable, good natured, extravagant. Everybody was apparently welcome to tlie best he had. Then came the collapse, his arrest, his flight, bis capture and confinement, bis laughing defiance of his accusers, until be found bow much more tbey knew thau be supposed, bis metaphorical prostration at tbe feet of bis judges, his humility, repentance, suffering and sacrifice, his pledge of future atouement, bis protestations of love for his long suffering wife, bis surreuder of his valuables for her benefit, bis meekness of mien until tbe court had concluded his case and gone then his sudden resumption of bold, truculent, defiant manner, his midnightbreach of arrest, which had leaked out through the guard that was promptly sent forth to fetch him in then his demaun for the retnru of his property and bis furious outburst ou learning that Loriug bad taken bim at bis word and sent it without delay by the safest possible hands.

That proved an exciting day. The adjutant's message had temporarily awed aud quieted the man, but toward 3 p. m. the mail carrier arrived from the Gila with hi sack of letters and papers. He reported having been stopped only five miles oat irom Sancho's by masked men, who quickly examined his big

mark—a dab of paint tbat must have got ois it while ho was there at the rauch— aud sent him ahead without a word being spoken. He saw other men, but they passed him by in wide circuit. He met Lieutenant Blake and the troop, and the lieutenant bade him hurry. So the letters were delivered nearly two hours earlier than usual. In the mail were a dozen missives for Captain Nevius—two iu dainty feminine superscription postmarked San Francisco, several that might be bills, others that were local-, oue postmarked Tucson, aud one slipped in at Saucho's.

The major himself looked these envelopes over as though be thought their contents ought to be examined, but even a convicted man had his rights, and the letters were sent to him. In less than three minutes thereafter the hot, breathless air of the long afternoon was euddenly burdened with another eruptiou of oaths and raviugs. One or two women sitting in the shade of their canvas shelters across the parade clapped their hands to their eprs aud ran indoors, and tbe major's orderly dashed full tilt for the guard. Half an hour later Captaiu Nevins was escorted to a new abode, a tent pitched jast ontfeide, not withiu, tho corral, and there he was left to swear at will with the sentry on No. 4 warned to call the corporal of the gnard if the gentleman for oue moment quit the seclusion of bis solitary quarters

And this was the status of affairs when the sun went down at tbe close of tbo third day after adjournment.

When it rose upon the fourth, all was quiet about the impetuons captain's canvas borne—too quiet, thought the officer of tbe day after his visit to the guard at reveille, and therefore did he untie the cords that fastened tbe flaps in front and peer within. Five minutes later two new prisoners were placed in charge of the guard, of which they had been members during- the night—Privates Poague and PritzJaff of tbe first and second reliefs respectively But the aggregate gain in tbe column of "in arrest or confinement" was only one, for Captain Nevins bad disappeared.

Of course there was a rush to the outlying ranch whose few remaining occupants grinned exasperatingly and shrugged their shoulders, but gave no information. Of course a courier was 6ent scurrying away on t|ie trail of tbe cavalry, bnt he came back sore footed at night, relieved of bis horse, arms and equipments and thanking God for his life. Of course another courier was started by night to make tbe perilous ride to the Salado and order the instant return of at least a platoon, but nothing more was beard of him for a week, and it was nearly five days before these desert bound exiles of Camp Cooke got another atom of reliable news from Sancho's, and meautime wondrous other things had happened.

It did not take long to determine tbe means by which Nevins had succeeded in getting away There was little indeed to prevent his doing so if be saw fit to go, for unless sentries were posted on all four sides of bis tent he might crawl off in tbe darkness unobserved. The sentry on No. 4 bad received orders merely to summon the corporal and report to bim if the officer ventured to leave his tent, and as No 4 was a post over a hundred yards in length and the ten try responsible for all of it there was no right or reason in demanding of bim that be should give his undivided attention to what might' be going on close to tbe corral

In fact, by removing Nevins from tbe inner quadrangle of tbe camp and placing bim outside tbe walls Major Starke bad made it all tbe easier for bim to skip a second time it be saw fit to do so, but Starke reasoned tbat Kevins still

leather bag, silently pointed to a curious, the flight of tbe crow. Two raprobates in tbe captain's company declared that the black bearded clerk arrested witb

bad eom hope tbat congressional influence wouid save bim from dismissal, and therefore would not peril bis chances by a second flight. Starke did not know tbat Nevins was honest at least in one statement—tbat be expected dismissal. His fate was sealed bis pay was confiscated to square shortages. There was actually nothing to be gained by staying at Cooke in virtual confinement perhaps eight or ten weeks until his case could be decided iu Washington and the orders received back in Arizona. It actually simplified ^matters in many ways for Nevins to go

Somebody, for instance, would have to pay the cost of bis snbsisteuce all that time at Cooke. Thrice a day his meals were sent to him from the little I bachelors' mess, already sorely taxed for the "entertainment" of the members of tbe court, and the four poor fellows who constituted that frontier club had been only too glad tvheu its members from other stations insisted that they should pay their share of the long three weeks' burden on the culinary department. But Nevius now was penniless, so be said, and why should impecunious iufautry subalterns support in idleness a disgraced and virtually dismissed officer? Yetrtbat is precisely what that government compelled them to do—or starve him

Thinking it all over dnring the day, Major Starke concluded that at least Camp Cooke had something to be thankful for, and sending for Privates Poague and Pritzlaff he sternly rebuked them for their probable negligeuce (for "discipline must be maintained"), and with dire threats of what they might expeot in the way of punishment if they trans gressed ip the slightest way for six months to come be bade them go back to duty, released, which they did, each witb his tongue in his cheek and a wink of the inner eye, as they strode off together aud went grinning to the guard tents for their blankets

All the same, Starke wished to know whither Nevins had gone and whether anything new had started him This time no horse or mule bad disappeared, but the tracks of two quadrupeds were found on the mesa coming from "Rat Hell," as Captain Post, who had done time iu Libhy, named the gambling ranch outside the reservation, to a point within 100 yards of the corral, and thence bore away southward straight as

Nevins, but released because he was a civilian over whom the military had no jurisdiction, bad been over at the ranch all the previous day. Sentry Poague frankly admitted that he hud heard horses' hoofs out on the mesa and voices iu the captain's tent, but saw nobody crossing his post aud couldn't bo expected to in the pitchy darkness. Whither Nevins went was therefore a matter that could only bo conjectured in the light of later events. How he went was a matter of little moment. It was good riddance to bad rubbish, said Starke, until at last tbe next mail came from Sancho's. For nearly five days tho major declared himself couteut if ho never saw Nevius again. Then he turned to and prayed with all bis soul that ho might catch him—»if only for five miuutes. [TO RE CONTINUED.]

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