Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1900, Page 23

of Preceding Chapters, Norman Holt, favorite son of an_ old entucky family, {s reprimanded at West oint for dueling and js withdrawn by his {gh-upirited father. Hig home-coming, in 6 winter of 186, fa celebrated by an old- ashioned Kentucky Christmas gathering. Among the guests are Daisy Lane, daugh- ter of Dr. Holt's lawyer, and J. Burnett alloy, both of Cincinnati. = The lat rings letters of introduction from Lane's partner, Mr. Mclntyre, and {8 courteously rocelved, but arouses the of N man Holt by his attent) Malloy separates Miss | arty during a fox hu a8 ball the sa; ning affects an aie of proprietorship distasteful to Dalsy and obnoxious to his rival, Norman Holt. But All feeling 1s forgotien when at midnight il surround Dr. Holt to drink the Christ- mas punch, which ceremony I% interrupted by & midnight messenger, who announces the dangerous iliness of fudgo Mclntyio nvestigation reveals his ‘financial affairs n & hopeless tangle and the Holt fortune flesipated. " fenry and Normon Holt enter ne's law office In Clncinnatl, where Nor- man joing the Anderson cadets. (Copyright, 1900, by G. W. Dillingham Co.) “l was afrald Theodore might tempt you thers oftener than was wise,” sald Henry, kindly. He kuew the lads were much together. What he did mot know was that, had Theodore his way, there were places far wpart from home whither Be would for & time at least have tempted bis mew friend, whither before very long be wished he had not done so. It was only teaching Norman the path to find him and to emable him to bear him away from Sceves of #in thut would have turned his mother white with dread did she but dream of them. It was to wean him from this eraze as much as anythiog that Norman welcomed the new distraction, the Ander- son cadets. Theo had becn urged to Joln. “I'll do it if you will,” he finally #aid, and then within & week the com- pany discovered that here was a quiot young fellow, u soldler {n every step and attitude, who knew more about drill, tac- tics and the like than “Cap" could ever Bope to. They made tho tall Kentucklan first sergeant at the end of the fortnight and captaln the end of the month, for the organizer resigned fn a huff. The fame of the boy officer's skill and ability went abroad among the local militia and the driliroom of the cadets became the rendezvous for enthusiasts of other and older commands, notably the Guthrie grays The boys ware drilling with an odd weapon known at (ho time as the musquetoon, a short-barreled, s1100th-bored cross between & blunderbuss and a gaspipe, that fired a bullet as big as an egg, but could never vouch for its billet. It was fitted with a basonet nearly double the usual length and unfitted for service of any kind other the beautitul flag In hand, a body of prom- Inent citizens at his back, the lieutenant of the Emmets took post by the side of | Miss Lane, whose checks were flushing| with excitement and delight (of seeing Theodore in his corporal's chevrons, no doubt). Sllence fell on the assembly as the Judge began his ringing address, full of | 1n the face. THE OMAHA DAILY than begun. It s an accomplished fact That man at Washington has said one true thing at least: 'This mation cannot live half slave, halt free.’ Now, the Ohlo Is the uatural dividing line. All our tastes and sympathies are with the united south. Thousands of northerners are with us, too. They are divided against themselves. We shall have a new natlon, & new south. I |see it coming as sure as the sun and I | shall stand with our father and our friends, orman, and so will you. broke down tonight” “Do you mean—you—and father—or Ken- tucky, for that matter, would fight against that flag?”’ asked the younger, in amaze. “God forbid! I'm for setting it up In every state capital throughout the south. {1t tsn't the flag of the north, man. It's 'as much the south’s as theirs. It's the flag of the whole country—the united nation.” That's just it,”" was the Instant answer, Norman turned and looked his brother “The united nation, but when you pull away from the unlon you can't take its flag with vou. You can't even No wonder you lofty patriotlsm and concluding with & thrilling peroration {a which he dwelt upon the dangers that menaced that very| is Kentucky's so long us she doesn't quit, hated him, called him than learning the “manual.” Theo de- clared at home that in less than three months Norman would make that company the best drilled fn tho world and urged the elders and Daisy to come to see the flag presentation that was to occur the first week In April, when the cadeis were to appear for the first time In thelr full- dress uniform, and Norman was to make the B #peech of acceptance. State tor Malloy had been ome of the heaviest subscribers to the uniform tund and for the beautiful flag, heavily em- brotdered with gold and silk, already on exhitition In tho show window of & famous Shop on Fourth street. Young Malloy, though older by four years than 21, had been one of the ~original members, and a sergeant at the time Holt and Lane were elected. Tt had occurred to him that it might not be a bad thing to have Nor- man Holt In the ranks, where he could ordor him about, or Theodore, where he could show him a favor. It had not oc- curred to him that the company would speedily place Holt at the head of the Iist of sergeants—give him that conspicuous position universully referred to in those days outside of the regular service s “orderly,” which meant a very different thing. He was prompt to act, however, and without loss of prestige. The “Emmot guards,” attached as Company C to a Cin- olnnatl regiment, were divided among | themselves, s are apt to be the Green | Islanders with no common foe In sight, and | the question at issue was the choice of & first lleutenant. Father and son held a brief conference and the former opened his | views—and pocketbook—to the leaders of | both sides In the Emmets, with the result that the Enquirer announced one morning | in March “that the breach between the opposing factions In the Emmet guards | had been most happily healed by the with: | drawal of both candidates in favor of Mr J. Burnett Malloy, only son of the dis- tingulshed citizen and senator, Hon, T. Martin Malloy, who was almost unani- mously elected first lieutenant at last night's meeting. Mr. Malloy has been con- spicous In the organization and instruction of the Anderson cadots, in which somewhat exclusive corps he holds the rank of ser- geant, and 1s looked upon as one of the most brilllant and capable officers on their rolls. 8o much so, indeed, that much sur- prise, not to say unfavorablo comment has been excited by the recent action of the cadets In selecting a stranger to the com- munity for the most responsible office and setting him over the head of so capital a soldier as Mr. Malloy. The Emmets seew to be made of ‘sterner stuff’ and thelr prompt tender of honerable promotion to the stono the bullders refected carries with 1t something of merited rebuke to the fledgling command of soclety pets.’ Ot course Mr. Malloy assured his com- rades of the cadets that the honor was as unsought as the newspaper fling was uniospired by anything he had sald or thought. He gave a supper to certain of his clique in the boy company and “'set up’ the clgars and other accompaniments for the Emmets and was present in & very be- coming and stunnlog new uniform and sword (the latter hooked up wrong side before), the night of the flag presentation to the cadets. Remarkably neat, trim and patty looked these yovng gentlemen fn their new gray ‘regimentals” and very soldierly was their tall young captain But when the crowd began to gather and 1t devolved on him to ald In seating the many women who came smiling to do honor to the occasion he became palpably ner- vous. Licutenant Malloy, as was to be expected, flashed hither and yon very much at home and when the floor was cleared and the company formed and a venerable eitizen and jurist appeared in their midst, flag and the beloved land of which it was the symbol and the heroic veteran whose name they bore now penned in & fortre menaced by rebel guns—Anally calling on one and all to declare their undying de- votlon to the flag and the cause It stood tor, and was rewarded by resounding accla- matious and tumultuous applause as he placed the sacred emblem in the hands of the blushing captain, who, with his sixty brave lads in gray, had shouted loudly the “Aye” that pledged them to its service. Then, as sllence fell upon the assemblage again, Norman, with all the color gone from Ny face, began almost inaudibly, stammered, then blushed, became utterly confused and finally falrly broke down in his speect. and with a few Incoherencies called forth the colorbearer, gave over the flag to him and fell back, abashed and dismayed. True, the Andersons cheered and the crowd clapped and hurrahed to assure him of confidence and sympathy. True, in herdling the company later in a dashing drill of half an hour, Norman was himself again and his ringing voice and splendid bearing showed, as many a soldler has showed, that though speechmaking wasn't Lis forte, he was yet a leader of men. That part of the proceeding was mot re- ferred to In the newspaper account of the affair. A collation was served before the arill ard many people left immediately after that. Dalsy and her mother sought to stay, as Theo had urged them, but Mr. Lane had business awaiting him at his lbrary. Mr. Malloy had heard that “the drill was to be abandoned, as the captain scemed to be sdmewhat overcome—had lost his head, in fact, and the boys were al- cady beginning to repent them of their error.” Indeed, there were boys who | thought that breakdown lgnominlous. They | Mittle knew the emotions struggling through tho heart of the young soldler as he strove to speak, with his brother's stern, sad, white face confronting him in the heart of the throng, with Henry's dark eyes fixed almost in menace upon him. More than that, close by Henry's slde 8:00d two young men, who a few months back were Nor- man's friends and classmates in the bat- tallon of cadets at the Polnt, two young men who, with others from the seceding states, had tossed thelr warrants to the winds, torn oft the uniform of the national academy and, quitting it forever, were now on their way to unite their fortunes with those of friends and kindred n the south— to join in armed assault upon the very flag Norman this night of nights was swear- ing to defend “against all enemies or op- posers whomsoever." ‘“Are you conscious of what It means Norman? Do you realize you are pledging your services agalust your own people, your home, your estate, your fortune?" This was the solemn question Henry put to him as late that night the brothers walked to thélr distant lodgings after the sad, constralned goodby betwaen hia and Lis former cadet comrades. ‘Moreover, do you not know that in the event of war be- tween the sectlons our father will surely take sides with the south?" “Even it the state refuse to secede, she has thus far?" queried the younger. “Even if she refuse,” was the firm reply. “Norman, this idea that Kentucky can re- main neutral s absurd. Sooner or later we shall be drawn In and men must decide and determine quickly. 1 hate to see the unfon breakiug, but the break has moro L THE FIRST BORN is maturally a subject of wonder and worriment to the young mm(u-r. be if some kind friend tells her of Happy and easy will she the marvels of relief to be obtained by the use of ‘“Mother’s Friend” There is nothing in the world like this simple liniment, used externally, It relaxes all strains and distensions, soothing headaches and nervs ousness, as well asrelieving *‘morning sickness.” 21@1; or sent by oxpress paid on recei o i 4 Rogulater Co., Allaai ofprice. Write retian s ta G “That 1 should sufler s scratch out one star. as much as the north's until they quit. It “NOW YOU and until she does quit, at least, it's mine, | too, and by heaven I'll stick to 1t!" “Then, suppose you are ordered to march southward and make war on your kindred Already they are talking at Washington of ‘coercing’ them in again. “Just as in Alabama and they talk of coercing Kentucky out. is worse?" They had reached the door of the modest lodging they had takem teward the east end. Late as It was & light was burnlng in the hall and a volce halled them from over the balusters of the second floor. “There's & telegram Jjust come for Mr. Henr: I put it on the mantel in your/ room. ished and the brothers hurried aloft. There was the fateful message, dated New Or- leams. “Your uncle wor Coming home by viver. Should reach Belleview via Louisville about 15th. Both meet us.” About the 15th and here it was the 6th. sald Norman, briefly. “I must Henry. “Father evidently needs Perhaps he fears the worst. No Norman, {s—is not this—a favorable op- 507 ?" was the question as the younger turned sbarply on the elder man. “For your resignation.” “1 have resigned once in six months, at father's demand, and regret it bitterly al- ready. I shall not resign again, Henry, until [ bave far graver reason “Then even before you cam see father again you may be ordered—on active duty, Norman." “And it I am—I'll obey.” One week later the north took fire with the news that South Carolina had opened the ball—Sumter had fallen—the beloved flag was humbled in the dust—the president bad called for 75,000 men to defend the capital and Henry Holt went back to his native state alone. Mississippl Which CHAPTER V. Soldier in Spite of All Away in western Virginia, with the bold helghts of the Alleghanies at their back, & fair, winding river at their feet, a little column of union tioops had halted om thelr homeward way. The flerce excitement of (he first fcw weeks of the great war had settled down to a tense, silent strain. Bull Run had taught an impatient and fmportu- nate public one vaiuable lesson and the yell of “On to Richmond!" had given place to “Look out for \Washington!" The 75,- 000 summened for the defense of the cap- ital were being rapidly replaced by regi- ments eifisted for three years or the war. Many of the so-called ‘“three months’ men'-militla regiments accepted at the first alarm—were now returning to reor- ganize for further service and among them was Ohlo's fivst tender. With the grays as its nucleus the gallant regiment had been promptly recrulted to the maximuw and whirled away to the front, had done its full share in the strange, unaccus- tomed service that befell it and now with wiser heads w beginning to dis- cuss the possibilities of the fu- | ture. Many changes would be wrought in its personnel. The, colonel had got his stars and gone to Washing- Then the speaker chastely van- | What airs he'd put on we'd never BEE DAY, DEC & plot had been hatched, many & plan well | lald, even before they sighted again and greeted with glad cheers the beautitul Ohlo, the Belle Riviere the voyageurs so aptly named. With two officers whose names every man in Comnay C, yelept the Emmets when they were at home, our story has much to do. The first in order of rank, thelr first lleutenant, not being on hand to speak for himself, was not too wel spoken of, now that thelr brief term had expired and they were free to talk at all. A very, very popular officer was Lieu- tenant Malloy the first fortnight of the war. He Jacked and Billyed and joked with the men, stood treat on innumerable occestons and was cheered and applauded at every turn, much to the detriment of good order and military discipline, wher- ever he went within the lines. That was in May. On the other hand, the tall, stern young second lieutenant, the drilimaster and tacticlan of the company, with his somber eyes and sad, hollow-cheeked face, was the reverse of popular. He rarely laughed, he never treated and he held It was the south's aloof from even the jolliest men as though | W48 not too sorry to hear from his lips For a time they “nterloper,” he were a superior being 8! NUB HIM—AND YOU—-YOU WELCOMB “Shanghal” end the like, but that, too, was In May. They had elected him second leutenant because their own couldn’t go and becauso everybody sald what a fine drill instructor he was. He had made the Anderson cadets almost perfect, but they were too young to go said the governor to the intemse wrath of the boys. They could mnot get into an accepted regiment. The Emmets were induced by the colonel, the major, their captain and the adjutant to elect young Captain Holt their second lieuten- ant. They did It. They were glad enough to do anything to get away to war. “But, Lord!" said Corp Connelly, “it we'd known have named him.” But that, too, was in May. When their general, however, said in June that the Emmets were easily the best- drilled company in the brigade the boys broke forth in Celtic Joy and went and cheered thelr drillmaster, leaving “‘Cap” to thank the general. Then the Emmets turned out the best guard detalls, had the best taught sentries, took ‘“orderly” for the commanding officer six times a week, had, too, the neatest tents and company street—all due to that young expert, al- though “Cap'* willingly accepted the credit. The adjutant shortly afterward spralned his wrist and the colonel detalled Lieuten- ant Holt to act in bis place, and the Em- mets went wild agaln with delight to see how much more style and snap their lieu- tenant threw into the dutles of the adju- tant in the ceremonies of parade and guard mounting than the original incumbent, who looked with clouded eyes and rueful face and returned to duty rather earlier than the surgeon wished. Only once were they under fire, and then they made a prodiglous smoke and noise and the commands of most officers were Inaudible, even the colonel’s, as he rode raging up the line, but when skirmishers were called for the “Old Man” designated Company C, and “Cap" sent Mr. Holt in command of the line, Mr. Malloy being somewhat indis- posed, and Norman's voice rang over the fleld clear and confident above the clamor and the general praised the boy officer, now just 21, and the regiment looked up to and saluted him with a fervor felt for precious fow of his senlors. Between the two lleutenants of Company O there had been hardly any intercourse. The breach widened day by day, but after this episode Malloy fell really ill—a low fever of some kind, and his father came and took him home two weeks ahead of the re ment, and Norman command of tho Emmets for ten days, while “Cap" was away sitting on a court-martial. And all the time he was growing in the respect and esteem of the rank and file of the big regi- ment, yet, strangely, he seemed to have tow friends or associates among his brother officers. He was much by himself, writing long letters, pacing up and ‘down, lost in sad thought, for his face showed it. Let- ters came for him frequently at the out: letters from Kentucky that were read with ever increasing sadness and despond, but n these had ceased Even to the colonel, who had seemed to take @ great liking to him, Norman could not, or would not, speak of their contents. The only intimate he had in Cincinnat! was ton. The lleutenant colonel was hoping for the eagles and supreme command. One major and two captains expected, and six | at least hoped, for promotion. Others were | to drop out One or two of the officers had been dropped. Others might follow. These men who were to re-enlist would | have a powerful influence in the selectlon | of the company officers, at t, and many confidence. Henry, his brother, now striving to be neutral at home, and glorying in what he coneldered the spirited refusal of Ken- tucky's governor to furnish troops ““for the wicked purpose of coercing sister stat Theodore Lane Norman had sought and stood by as all men will a certain girl's brother, yet Theodore had never won his The lad was high spirited, im- o ) EMBER 190 pulsive, thoughtiess and a few months | younger than Norman, just young enough to be unable to enlist without the parental consent, which, being refused, compelled him to stay wrathfully at home, while Norman was winuiug honors, at least, the earlier accounts declared, and Theo, who bad been Norman's loudest advocate and ardent admirer, now felt those pangs of envy that if not crushed out are apt to sour the milk of human kindness in weak human nature. Do we always rejoice, all of us, when friends and neighbors we have fought and played with year after yoar, be- come suddenly famous in some other fleld, where our names are unknown? Unable to share the honors of his associates who had gone to the front, was it alto- gether unnatural that Theo Lane should have wished that there had been no honors to speak of? However, this Is a story, not a homily. Theodors Lane was the first to take Malloy by the hand on his return, pale, somewhat thin and very in- | teresting looking to the girls, and Lane that Holt. things were not all straight about Yes, oh, yes, he was a good drill- |master. He ought to be; he had had ex- ceptional advantages, but the feeling was growing—Malloy spoke of it with deep re- luctance—that—that Holt's loyalty was not | what it should be. Officers knew and men were boginning to know that Holt was in lcoulllnl correspondence with rampant reb- oln. Everybody seemed to have heard by |thts time that Dr. Holt was obe of Gov- |ernor Magoffin's most trusted and trucu- |1ent advisers. That while he had opposed |mecession at first it was because he be- |Meved southern rights could be obtained and enforced without it. He belleved in the heaven-born right of the southern gen- tlemen to rule the land. It was known that the doctor and Henry Holt had been — MR. MALLOY.* to Tennessee and oven farther south, had had conferences with Albert Sidney John- | ston, the flery Texan, who was organizing the southern forces in the west. It was declared that a commission as surgeon general had been tendered the doctor and a #taff position offered to his eldest son. It was fully belleved in the regiment, sald Malloy, that a captaincy awaited Norman in the confederate service and that he would have accepted had his state goue with the rest, as it might do any day. He Wwas an unsafe man to trust with the sword of authority. All this began to be whis- pered, if not noised abroad, in Cincinnati at the very moment the old regiment was nearing its home station to reorganize All this was hinted about the homestead of the Lanes, who were loyal to the core, and there had already been a violent rup- ture between the now senlor member and the hot-headed client at Belleview. Lane, at least, knew well that the father and the elder son wero every day turning more and more to the side of open deflance to the general goverament and when early in June he had been summoned to Belleview to attend the last solemn rites as they lald to rest the form of his old partner and bemefactor, there had been a stormy controversy, In which, among other things, Lane was told that Norman Holt would stand exlled and disinherited 1f he did not quit the service of the “Lincoln govern. ment” and return to his home and kin- dred. No wonder the lonely soldier's face had grown sad and sallow. He had indeed been In correspondence with the enemy, who had exhausted every argument, plea and threat in vain effort to break his re- solve to stand steadfast to the flag. And the bright August afternoon as the regiment halted at the river in sight of the rolling hills of their beautiful state the men of the Emmets had resolved, with but half a dozen excentions, to re-emlist on reaching home. “Cap” should be re- elected. He was a father to them, an honest old Irish soldler who didn't know much, but did the best he knew how. And then, with a cheer, they swore their second leutenant ehculd have a bar upon his shoulder In place of Malloy. That night a telegram reached the state senator in Cincinnat!, which he gravely read, then thrust into his pocket with a laugh. ‘“They can elect whom they d-—n pleas sald he, “but we'll appoint whom we please.” A month later and the old regiment, reorganized and already in camp, awalted the coming of the governor's secretary with the commissions of the officers duly elected by the men. Colonel, fleld and staft were already commissioned. The United States mustering officer was on the spot and ready. There had been strange and unac: countable delay in sending the prized parchments. The regiment was urgently nesded at the front. It was to go within & day ™ the completion of the muster and rumor hed it go to Kentucky, where the home guards were serving only ten days at a time and not then unless they felt Iike it. An advance Into Kentucky on part of the confederates was imminent and General Anderson, commanding “by request of the Kenftcky legislature” at Loulsville, was ohviously nervous over the situation. Kentucky had objected to the entrance of northern troops within her borders so long as the confederates kept beyond the limits, but there her own son and statesman, Buckner, commanding & power- ful force at Camp Boone, just across the line in Tennessee and if he were to leap forward to Bowling Green what then? Whole families sald, “Join him!" Whole families sald, 4Fight him!" Other families were divided against themselves, espoused eagerly, strenuously ome side or the other. There were no half-hearted men in Kentucky. Henry Holt had ordered a brand new uniform as major of staff in the confederate service. Norman Holt, with the glistening strap of a first lleutenant on his coat of union blue, was drilling Com- pany C dong hours each day when the gov- ernor's secretary arrived at Camp Rose- crans, accompanied by Mr. J. Burnett Mal- loy, who bad falled of re-election, and, thirty-four {n number, the officer present assembled to receive their commissions at his hands. Then and not until then was it learned that in ono cAsc uly the gov- ernor, In the exercise of his discretion had seen fit to disregard the election and for good and sufficient reasons, as was stated, Mr. J. Burnett Malloy was re-established first lleutenant of Company C instead of | the unanimosu chofce of the men. The bar | so confidently promised Norman Holt at| the hands of the state had come indeed, but | it was a bar sinister. | “You will see now,” Malloy had whis- pered to Mr. Lane, “how quick that will settle the question and send him south, where he belongs." But Malloy was wrong. When the regl- | ment was mustered in & few days later a new name appeared among the many Hi- bernian patronymics that adorned the roll of the rank and file ot Company C. It was that of Private Norman M. Holt. CHAPTER VI The dream of neutrality was a thing of the past. With the northward dash of the confederates—Buckner's division on Bowl ing Green and Elizabethtown, and Zolli- coffer's through Cumberland Gap Into the heart of the state—Kentucky found itself a veritable battleground, and, as though ashamed of their previous Inaction, men flew to arms in earnest. On one #fde or the other the most vehement, onward fighters wherever they served, these “sons of the dark and bloody ground'—her soldiers— | were promptly arrayed. The dle was cast The south had crossed the Rubicon, and loyal Kentucky felt her dignity as- sailed, her soll {nvaded. It turned the scale with many a waver- ing heart. It tronsferred into uniouists and | loyalists and stanch upholders of the old | flag scores of wallant fellows whose heart- strings up to that time seemed half woven in the fabric of states rights and southern supremancy. It cost many a wrench and | rupture, but once the step was taken no man turned back. In hundreds of families brother was arrayed against brother, the famous names of the old commonwealth, whoso motto had been “United We Stand,” were now to be found In divislon, brigade and regimental commands fronting eaoh other in the fleld of arms. It was the policy of the south to tempt the wavering with commission to bigh rank. It was the mis- take of the north to treat with neglect and distavor soldlers who halled from the bor- der states. The man who bad attested his loyalty and devotion to the uuion, even at the cost of disinheritance and ostracism should have been above suspiclon. There had been a rending apitt in the fair old blue grass country, where galloping scouts announced the northwara sweep of the con- federate columns. Asholt was well nigh robbed of its able-bodied men, most of whom had hastened to Buckner at Bowling Green and folned his command. As for Belleview, it. was turned over to the care, as has been said, of the overseer and but- ler. Tho genlal old host of the winter be- fore, with deeper ltnes about his wistful eyes, had taken himself to Nashville, and thence to Johnson's camp, too old, he sald, to serve as surgeon, but not too old to be adviser and friend. There, too, was Henry, major and aide-de-camp, and both marveied as they read from a Louisville paper the names of the officers of the —th Ohio, has- tened forward to reinforce Rousscau, for there was no Norman Holt umong them They found Instead ‘the name of J. Burnett Malloy. Those were days in which papers, and people, 105, went to and fro be- tween the lines with little let or Rindrance, and there came to Johnston's beadquarters, eager to tender his sword to the south, a youth well known to the Holts and to soclety in Loulsville and Cin- cinnatl, and through him for the first time the amazed father heard the particulars as glven out by the regiment on its way through Louisville to the front, to wit: that although elected first lleutenant by his men, Norman Holt was bellevel by the state authorities to be In sympathy with the south and In correspondence with southerners in active rebellion; that ho was considered too *‘shaky” in his loyalty to be instrusted with a commission; that deprived of it, he had confounded his de- tractors, whoever they were, by enlisting forthwith in the ranks of the company of which he was the choice for second in com- mand. And hearing this the doctor's rage burat all bounds. He had stormed at his son for siling agalnst the south. He disowned him, he sald, and declared he would never again recelve him. But when told that | to begin his boy, his flesh and blood, had been re- pudinted by the state with whose foremost regiment and with whose colors he had cast his lot, words utterly failed him. He wiux for rushing back to Ohlo, speeding Columbus, bearding the governor In h capitol and fighting him on the spot for his {nsult o the name and fame of Holt. The boy might be wrong-headed, ungrate ful, mislead, “‘all because of his love for & northern girl," the doctor had it. (How many a northern-born soldier went amiss because of his love for a lass in the sunny south!) Yes, Norman might be “a rank traitor, suh, to the south, suh, but he was fncapable of double dealing, sub. He could no more llo than I could fly, suh.'* They had no easy time holding the irate old gentleman on their side of (he Cumberland, 0 bent was he on resenting the affront to the name He stared incredulous when they told him he would be arrested and probably sent to a northern prieon, per- haps tried as a spy, If caught within the northern lines. Mad with eagerness for the south to assert herself, for the war In good earnest and to redeem Kentucky, as he expressed It, he could hardly realize that the war was actually on and raging all about him. The idea of accusing a Holt of Kentucky of double- dealing! Lot him catch that Buckeye gov- ernor but once and he'd horsewhip him, sub, cowhide him, suh, and those who knew the doctor knew that, at least, was no dle threat. Henry himeelf caught some of the father's fury. He, too, was Indignant at the in- Justice done his brother. He knew oven beforo the significant breakdown the night of the flag presentation how sorely Nor- man was tried. He knew how the la grieved over Lane's altered manner and the almost frigid greeting accorded him when he called at the house. He knew that the boy's brave heart was fairly surren- dered to that lovely face and winsome | smile, but the face had been clouded, the smile timorous tho fatal shot and fitful for days befors that divided north from south and sct brother agalnst brother. Lane would live up scrupulously to the busincss obligation which made Henry Holt a jentor partner and Norman a reader in his office, but beyond that Henry Holt saw plainly the pragmatical lawyer would not K0. He saw, moreover, that Lane, who had €0 depredated Senator Malloy's fnflu- ence over Mcntyre and who had been so averse to the younger Malloy's advances, was by April almost as frequently In con- ference with the wenator as ever McIntyre had been, while Malloy, §r., almost haunted the old house on' Fourth street, toward ( Which Norman so often walked at evening and to which his visits became perforce less and less. frequent. What Henry did Dot know was that Dafsy Lane, at least, held out against the assiduous devotions of Malloy and, despita all the whisper- Ings sho heard by day or night to the detriment of Norman Holt, warmed to him In her innermost heart, even though fore bldden to encourage him in the lcast. “Theodore thinks the world of him,” she #ald, with flaming cheeks, the evening fol- lowing tho presentation. 'She had actually let Norman see a lttle of the compassion and tendorness of her heart and thereby made him almost forget the humiltation of his failure as a speechmaker. But the mother had swooped upon thom and roundly rated Dalsy ws soon as Norman could with decency be made to take his leave. “Theodore thinks the world of him and 0 did you, papa, until after he came here from Belleview! Now, you snub him and you—you welcome Mr. Malloy. It wai just the other way three months ago, whereln the young lady spoke only truth, but to no purpose. ‘““Iimes are changed,” said Mre. Lane, “and what might have been sultable last winter {s now out of the ques- tlon. Besldes, your father finds he mis- Judged Senator Malloy. He fs & man much misunderstood,” and when Mrs. Laue spoke thus loftily the daughter knew that argu- ment was useless, Yet her heart wrung and her tears fell thick wnd fast when the regiment hur- rled away ut the call of danger. There had been a look In Norman's eyes, a clasp from his trembling Lands she could not mis- interpret and her humid eyes had spoken answering volumes fnto his, but to what purpose? Not once had there pased a line between them during the threo months he was away. He had written regularly, in fact, Incessantly to Theo at first, and had sent many messages. It was, “Tell Miss Daisy this and tell Miss Daisy that, and these, at first, the boy delivered. But Lano senfor took his son to task. With no Nor- man to watch over his waywardness the lad had speedily fallen {nto evil courses again. There had been nights away from home and days in bar and billlard rooms and demands from creditors, and Lane got wind of much of it, paid the pressing debts, but put a ban on future indiscretions “What's more, I want this—this nonsense between your sister and—young Holt sum- marily stopped. No more messages, under- stand me, elther way. 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