Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1900, Page 24

being sadly and fearfully divided a ut It And now Captain Enyart had been sent to gce It Norman had nothing to say for him self. The report of his conduct when he could have cseaped had found its way to headquarters and staggered those who be- leved In his guilt [ And so there ca a day not soon to be A .f [\] L\/‘ forgotten, and a scene long r membered in ) ry p the gencral hospital, o scene thut when de- C Wil War scribed to Mr. Burnett Malloy, less than a | week later, sent him nearly wild with ap« By (A L 3 preiension and fealous misery. And well & it might. Matters were lively at the front General CHARLES KING- and ho couldn't got away. The army of the Ohlo wa oncentrating at Nashville In was his own captain who was the narrator. aud little doubt was there that “‘the ould Dain of Preceding Chapters. dred, but that beneficent pariner was |1 enjoyed the privilege and made the S—— and buried now The fortuucs of t most of it. Gaffney had learned to love Holt, favorite son of nn“uH musgt goon follow suit, so what sen A and lean on Norman. He felt that the lad family, Is repriman 1 at 8! trere in sentiment? A man must loc Out | padq heen undérmined by this smooth, well gmllm«-llv-d "‘H‘“»’ o “‘:"Ml“'v'm.yv vm: for his own. Here was Senator Malloy, | o, ni6q well-provided fellow, whom he e winter ot oo T celobrated by an gld: whom he had long looked upon with dis. | §CorTite o et o or his su. {ishioned, Kentucky CHEIImAs o Uaugh: [avor and disiike—had indeed o tfeated |pepgr airy and education, but feared for e e B frwyer, and ). Burnett him, now coming forward In his bluff, hearty i’ qoubted influence and power. Oppose Maioy, Uhoun ‘ot Cifcinriatt The'latiar way, “me of the world, you know," a8 ho it 'Guill G [Lcur his enmity he dare not D O E O etenaaly Jeid, perfetly Wlllig to Iut tygones b¢ | Captain Gaftney had not lived long fn Irish- partner, Mr. Meintyre, and ls courteously hygones, to forgive and forget his siights GRS TR PR AT N O L tng man Holt by hiu attentiona to Daisy Lane. and enubs. Aye, even to exert his powertul | o o fy b "Cochonce the depth of his in- P e o toR i i a the Christe I8 o & mothing more, appurently, than | (FIBUE. But Jicommon with almost every Fias ball the same, svenins, afegts in ait A4 sking nothing more, appaten b o officer of the regiment, he knew by this of proprieto ) distasteful to Daisy and that x,..!.:.-.u wul.l rm,;lr the m';! Al *""{ time Malloy's aspirations regarding Dalsy obnoxious (0 hig rival, Nor Holt. But It would have been flying in the face of Ll Aol Mo 111 feeling 19 forotten when at midnig"t prcvdence to deny him, sald Lane. Ang 1@ne, thought he knew that Norman Holt all surround Dr. Holt to drink the Christ- G070 08 L e little girl in his arma | DAd been a dangerous rival and took all an B T anlaNe messanaar. ho' annb heps :.I):‘l‘;nl or woodby as he hurrled away ITiShman's delight in twitting an anxious Va midnight. messenger, who announces to kiss h sodb e hurrled aw ‘ the danierous fliness of Mudge Mclntsfo 5 Washington, as he noted how wistful #W&I% | {n\» tigation revea ¥ 'a r‘”"'" was the appeal in her humlid eyes, how A long letter had come to him from Louis- n n hopeless tangle and. the t fortune |Wwa i 4 flssipatcd, CHenry und Norman Holt soier Lanes law office in Clnclnnatl. Normin folt entiits ax private n the Oh) infantrs Malloy hrougin pelitieal infivence, 18 . arit in the same company and_Heary | It jotns the confederate forces. Norman ordered to conduct w skirmishing party g to Bel in search | ! | Nor | trial and take h | —— | | The week that followad brought a mani- | fest ¢! for the better in the con lons surrounding the prisoner patient in tt Loulsville general hospital. Up to the day he first saw the face of Da Lane within these whitewashed walls Holt had little enre hat happened to him. Weak, he less, hopeless, betrayed by Fate and aban doned, as he thought, by God and man, he Bad fallen into a state of such apathy as at one time to give the medical officers abun dant reason to regard his recove s mor than doubtful. Whether they thought it the eastest and most natural solution of an ugly question, whether in the midst of manifold cares and cases they thought of it at all cannot be fded. He was left entlrely to Bimself to brood at will. 1t was his superd strength and constitution that tided him over the worst days. It was the strong love in his young heart that, thrilling through his whole belng at sight of the desplte obstacles and ill report, had been geutle, even sympatheric, in her man ner to him, that now 1 his will and wits the spirit of fight that was only latent, and termined him to action It was his conduct in keeping other patic within bounds, instead of selzing upon op portunity to escape, that actracted the at- | tention of the officers on duty at the hos- 1 pital and commanded the wimost reluctant | gratitude of Mrs, Lane. In the first im- | pulse of womanly pity at eight of his thin, | white face, and while still full of cagerness | to thank the soldier who had saved her boy, she had let fall the words that later sho would gladly have stifled, and had exhibited n degree.of compassion irrepressible at the moment, but injudicious in view of her plans for Daisy's future. Morcover, she saw that the evidence of Norman's suffering had a telling efect upon her child, she saw unerringly the great wave of pity, of pain, bewilderment, en indignation, that wellel up from Dalsy's innermost heart and real- 1zed that all in one moment there was over- thrown the work of patient months of undo ing at Norman's and of worldly promptings in behalf of the absent Malloy They had talked it all over, her husband and herself, before tho newly made major left for staff duty in front of Washington They knew and acknowledged Dalsy's pre dilection for N man Holt, and even meurned that they had felt compelled to | fair girl who, | ev and expense eold-shoulder him out of their fireside eir- | piteous the quiver about her pretty mouth, he knew she was thinking of Norman and mutely pleading for justice for him. She wouldn't believe Malloy's aspersions. The men would never have elected him their first true. turned Heutenant if those stories had been The very card Malloy had played the trick against him. The news that Norman had gone as a private soldier, cheated out of his commission, had roused her to such a pitch of wrath and woe that for the first thme in her life the child had stormed against her parents, hud declared them cruel, heartless, wicked, and, burst- ing into a passion of tears, had fled to her room, banging and locking the deor behind her, leaving them gazing into each other's white faces, stunned and aghast “We must leave it to time," the major had sald, after their long, dreary confer- ence It is probably th man, anyhow, and the res! The story of the luckless rald on end of poor Nor will come late B cle, but, as has been pointed out, Lane | . o€ BOFY B8 0 K O T e Dre worshiped wealth und tufluence and ‘wu;u"”m. day. Like every flasco, big or statlon. Lane had made up his mind that @y gt year of the war, “the affair was po matter which side tho war would ruin him. Lane knew by mideummer just to the last penny the ex tent of poor Melntyre's inroads upon the fittle fortune left in his hands for the berefit of his sister's sons. Lane knew that barely $10,000 remained to be divided be tween the two, and later, a8 the war wore on, was fully informed of the breach be- tween the hot-headed father and his second son. Even though reconciliation were later to come, what would be left of the doctor's estate by the close of the war? Like Vir- giuia In the east, Kentucky promiscd to be & gappling ground in the west. Who could preserve Asholt from the ravages of battle? What would Belleview’s innumerable uncles, aunties and pickaninnies be worth from a financial point of view by the time the war was ended and the south subdued? No! The Holts had been for years his most walued friends, his partner's closest kin- GERMS IN YOUR THROAT are the direct cause of all LUNG TROUBLES. Tho drst sywp: orus lll{ L] slight lclulls seusation, aid then a cotgh and a“l]“‘ e mul oy _even tuatly b helr "Wy into 'the lugs sud Con sumption 1esults. DR. GEO. LEININGER'S FOR-MAL-DE-HYDE COUGH °“hl. 1s the only Cough rome dy that w);nmu‘a Soild) fied Formaldehyde which will sanibilat every disease-breedin; germ o the throat an: thereby stop * oough &) most 1 stantly & If usec 0 connee i oure Weak Lugs, Bronchitis, Astbm Coughs, Catarrh, Consumption, an other aflment of the pulmonary region. Ttis treatmont will destroy every germ that can afleot the er\hllup systom, and even in Ivanced es of Consumption wil o frowth of the tubercular gorm. and. pui the fissus Iinlug of the lungs th such & cond: 1100 of health and activity Lt new gerins of tuberculosls entering y cannot live " o A BoreHiyee Gure solls at 250t iice. Di. Geo. Leibiogers alor 8 sells ut bucts. T containing the 0830.00 Taeh e ithdute old and recommended by Sherman & u!nmm-u Drug Co., Beaton-McGinn Drug Co., Merritt-Graham Drug Co., H. B. Gr ham, Chas. H. Schaefe) ax Becht, Hanse om' Park Pharmacy dish Pharmacy, ing Pharmaey, Peyton Pharmacy, Gio. 8 Davis, Council Bluffs, Ta., M. A, Dillon's Drug Store, Bouth Omuha. Norman might espouse | only a reconnaissance.” But Mre. Lane got all the particulars through the Rays at Lex- of protelyting had been going on, how ve I had been working | hemently the Belloview pending these oporations, another to serve as escort for the officers in lower counties and still certain other ria- ers, not in confederate gray, to keep vig- | tlant watch along the front. And so wh Wing's squadron made its essay, based on secret and reliable information of the pres- enco of the party at Belleview, the guard was on lookout for him, and never did Belio- view tender a warmer reception. What nearly broke the old doctor's heart, hows ever—what stunned him, yet enraged him-— was to find that his own boy, his own little Benfamin, had led the column that came to capture him. ‘““That,” sald Kate Ray, “is something none of us who know Norman can in the least understand. It sounds in- credible. Major Holt seems to feel 1t as deeply as does his father.’ But what Kate Ray did not know and Mrs. Lano did not learn until later in a letter from Malloy, was that Norman Holt, 50 far from serving as a guide for the purs pose Indicated, had played a double game, had treacherou: brought about the disas ter to the union arms and was now a pi 8- ouer awalting trial by court-martial, a pris- oner whose sentence might deservedly be death. And this was news over which Lane him- selt began to weaken. This was carrylng the matter too far. He had meant to re. move Norman as a possible sultor, not to slay bim a8 a felon. He read with amaze the story sent by his wife and in sore per- turbation tried to study it out and consider the pros and He could conceive of Norman dolng oue of two things In thiy matter, but could not belleve him gullty of playlug a double part. He wrote for cons firmation of Malloy's possibly biased state ment and got it. The report was true; the charge might not be. Then came the tia- ings of his own boy's prostration, and then Norman was for the time forgotten. Meauwhile what could Mrs. Laue do but ask that Norman should be transferred to the ward where Theodore was lying, a much smaller cne, where he might receive at her hands some of the care and dalnties lavished on her son. A surgeon had come and conversed with the accused patient and noted symptoms of excitement that led to examination. The cause not belng ap- parent in Norman's personal condition the doctor sought further and found it—in tho falr girl seated by her brother's bedsido across the hall. Then an officer from the staff of the commanding general dropped in—an oficer who had been on duty at West Point when Norman was cadet ser- geant of Company D. The recognition was instant on the part of the young soldler, but he gave no sign. The visitor was shocked and pained to see how the lad must have suffered. Norman's connection with the raid to Belleview was of course known o him—the name was & household word in the army, and the story by this time had | #one from mouth to mouth—Kentuckians cons the | “HE NEVER SAW OR HEARD ME UNTIL S§HE ROSE TO BID ME WELCOME." ville, semi-officlal in character, written by Captain Enyart himself, an officer of the department commander's staff, written to him as captain of Norman Holt's com- peny, that he might bave the latest and fullest and most authentic account of that young and corely tried soldler's fortuncs It was in answer to one the faithful old Celt had sent, because he could no longer bear the slure and innucndoes so frequently uttered at Norman's expense by Malloy and Enyart had written from the fullness of his heart and subject. The first pages the captaln kept to himselt. The last, with frequent interjections of Hibernlan com- ment, he read aloud to his senlor leutenant, Headquarters Army of the Ohlo. Office of the istant Inspector Gen- | lieutenant sauntercd off toward the sentry eral, June 30, 1862—-My Dear Cap- | line, tain Gaffney: 1 have received your| “Dush dash him'" swore Gaftney, deep anxious letter and am glad to be able 10 [ in his throat. “I'll tuke the starch out answer at once. The few linew of 1nquiry |av him yot, if only wanst we can get | sent you on the 20th when we were still| undher fire An' when Holt comes back full of General Thomas' brilllant victory 1n | wo'll see who's the betther man or I'm not front of Mill Springs, should £OUC | captain of the Emmet guard.” more fnto detall, but this cannot be sa'd | Soon enough, too soon perhaps for his of your capital answer. You have covered | health, Holt reolned the old company, 1o he whole subject, the faithtul nd your testimony to | and excellent service rendered | by young Holt will be of the utmost value | ington, who, oddly enough, scemed (o hea | not infrequently from Major Henry Clay | Holt of the confederate staff corps. Through them she heard ho ccegstully the work | | | and how hospitably he had entertained the | by | oMcers detailed for the duty by Siduey Jo | huston and Buchner, how the latter had | sent two squadrons of cavalry to cover | the should the case ever be brought to trial, | which now seems doubtful | begin with it must be remembered | that all the outery agalnst him was made 1 lot of badly beaten troopers who felt | they had to account in some way for the | » of the expedition. Then he himselt broke down, had no one to speak for him was too i1l to speak at all. Then followed the weeks In hospital and finally, as the charges were formulated and laid before our level-headed general—you may not appreci- ate him now, my friend, but with all his | apparent coldness and severity the results | will show he was the man of all others to make soldiers of his army—he sent for Lieutenant Fanniog and others and 'D(kl'l‘l how they knew Holt had communicated with the enemy's videttes, how they knew ho had purposely delayed the march and whether they knew any better road to | Belleview than the gne he took, except the | pike through Asholt, which of course would | have run them glap into a hornets' nest He found they didn't know aunything and | that the only officers and men likely to | know anything were Captain Wing, First | Scrgeant Hunter and Trooper Fuller, all wounded or prisoners in the hands of the enemy. That spolled the case for tho prosecution for awhile anyhow. Then who sbould turn up but Fuller, found amon wounded at, Bowling Green and sent | back to the general hospital at Louisville. Meantime Holt had had opportunity to escape from the hospital and not only would mnot take advautage of it, as he probably would it consclous of guilt, but he kept others in check, and this, too, came to | the general's ears and he ordered me to go | into the case. 1 bad known the young man when he was a cadet at the Point and he | was square as a mam could be—a Kentucky gentleman in fact—and I could not but eympathize with him in the extrem pain ful and trying situation forced upon him by the war. He was still so deeply grieved that he could mot bear to speak of th matter at first, but, denying the hecusa tions in toto, he said that Captain Wing would surely exonerate him and asked m to see the wouaded men in the other war And there, s luck would have it, lay Ful- | ler, ho who rode forward with him_to the | edge of the town and was close bim | until after they entered Belleview gates Fuller sald Holt never had a chance to speak to the enemy, that Wing kept him | close to his side and that Captain Wing | himself had ordered the detour around | Asholt after finding the village occupled by the enemy. The other man knew nothing S0 there's the case in a nutshell. So far | from belng blamed by Mr, Fanning for loading them Into the scrape he should be praised for getiing them out of it. Had it not been for his prescace and knowledge | of the road the whole squadron would probably bave been gobbled You should have seen the plcture yester- day afternoon when I went by the general's order to removo the guard and tell him the cose was quashed, unless future devel- opments should cause it to be reopened There in A sunshiny little room lay one of your boys, young Lane, bullding up from his fever. There by the bedside sat his mother—yon know the family, of course by THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY There In an easy, reading aloud, sat as tiotive and meant not to tell. His heart \diversion occasional scout, patrol or long- pretty a girl a an could hope to see, and | vas heavy as his feet as he climbed the [range skirmish with parties of gray-jack- there, reclining in another easy chair, was stairs to the second floor, and, entering the | eted cavalry that kept up a perpetual stir our nvalesce s0 cngrossed In the fair toom her presence had made sweet and ng the front; the only knowledge of what veader that he never saw or heard me until sacved, despite the sorrow in his heart, [might Le going on at home the occasional she nrose to bid me welcome. 1 made short lcoked blankly about him, There was his [coming of a mail with letters and papers work of my errand. “The geuneral orders cot, there stood his few belongings, but [their only participation in the move on your release, Holt," sald I, “and you are everything of Theo's was gone. Corinth the hours of listening to the dull, to have furlough to help the iadies take The lady left good-by for you and was |d1stant booming of the guns. Drills, save Lane home tomorrow. Furlough till you're so sorry you were away,” sald a steward, |bY squad or company in the manual, In both ready to take the field.” And while the | “She will write after they get home, and— [ Which the Army of the Ohlo was long since mother fell to kissing her boy, will you she left all thédse for you letter perfect, were impossible. Life under believe {t (“Ijsten to this now, Malloy,” These’ were two or three bottles of wine | PUCh circumstances becomes stagnation interpolated Gaftney) doesn't Miss Dalsy and some jellies and tonics and whatnots |1t Was tedium to those who had letters and amost sheke my hand off, and then, sobbing, from which in apeechless, nelpless sorrow | PAPErs from home; it was torment to him O, 1 knew it! I kneo ft!" turned to that Norman turned away. Unerringly he saw [WhO for two mortal weeks had—nothing lucky, lanky, lackadaisical (“Lack a Dalsy, through it all. Mrs. Lane never meant or | A spell seemed thrown over Norman 16 1t? That'll be you, Malloy, I'm think- | wished that he should ko home with her. | HOI'S sad life (u the early days that fol- ing'"') long-legged son of Kentucky and as They could take care of Theo without his [!0Wed Shiloh. The battle ftseit was well much as say, why don’t you? O, what fools |aid. That night he asked the chiet surgeon |B/Eh done by the time they reached the | thess mortals be! 1'd have had her in my arms that Instant, but he hung back, fush- | surgeon answered by ordering him back to | 1ANK JUSt at the last despairing charge of ing, troubled, nervously plucking at the |ted a0 Jien fo eray. It was ail over io & fow #looves of his blouse, and Anally ho blurts | But now here he was once more with his (1O1Ys: The coming of Buell's splendid out: “But I demand court-martial. I must |old company, but everything seemed 4t 4iOM drilled, disciplined and “'sea- be trled and honorably acquitted.” A8 If | cLanged. Gaftney wounded and gona. | oned.” Bad crushed the hopes of the con- Don Ca Buell's verdict wasn't good | Sloun, his friend and first sergeant, sent | LGSrOI® Jenclers, already shattered by the enough for any man! So there it stands |back invalided to Savannah. A man the | *¥ ©f the blue brigades late the previous and there she stood when he should have welcomed release and the lady both—with | geant in his place, and the man Norman | What there was open Afms. Wil write again nest week. | folt Kaww 16 be Bie ubsesiptlons mmv?i’m’."".”“f{' for the Ohlo lads they took Yours with regards, G. B, ENYART, commanding the company. “Be on your |y P :‘f""c"‘"‘ ',:" .:""""“' e B Captain —(h U, 8, ufantry, A. I G, |guard, me boy,” whispered Gaffney to him, [proc (e€ifient showing a disposition to P. S.—Sorry you missed Mill Spring. s on his way to the front the young sol- [prod, (e € and pitch in for & Doty Better luck next time. dier had bent over his wounded captain's |4 schoollng m:: ;::4 ‘n’;‘:lmlm :('“t x:! Slowly the voteran refolded the letter, his |cot. “That young man'll thrick you If he g™ on™ "8 JE had fae t Keatucky twinkling eves never quitting their mis- can. I'll be back wid the byes in a month. [go0 paa "t " tront ¢ ¢ had brought them to the front chievous scrutiny of his vielm's averted |TUl then—mind yer ee. "t a8 Bddles” But now oame the DECEMBER 23, how soon he could go te 1900, the fro ont and the Hmmets hardly knew at all made first ser- Malloy, seated in a camp chair, his booted feet to the fire, his delicate white hund nervously twisting his dark mustache, his glowing snapping and shifting, waited until the last word was read. Then deliberately he rose, stretched his arms to thelr full extent, yawned with ostentatious show of indifference, glanced upward at the sullen skics and wearily about at the grimy At o dpa country roads twisting, snakelike, through “Ef-who did you <y was the author of! UC Hmber: a little covering force of cay- (his ten-pake epetiecaptain Bnvnres|MFY oft southeastward toward Iuka; the il bl . e oinyaTt? | ccmrade regiments of the brigade bunched R e i Iff‘f,‘:f"l*‘vj\':-"“\“‘ P |in the wouda to their right, and here, in rather yow'll, find the case refilled. \m"‘f monoteny unspeakable, the men from the yourselt at home. 1m on paard. sen koo ok | Queen City were called upon to kill time And hitching up his handsome sword the find that at a time when cvery officer was presumably needed with his command and every application for leave of absence was forwarded disapproved Lieutenant Malloy, th Ohio, had be nted thirty days under orders the stern old soldier and diseiplinarian at Lead of th of the Ohlo could regard. There was no chance to tell which was the “better man” even on the second day of Shiloh when old Gafiney went down with a bulle through the leg, for tho first lieutenant failed to reach the field until days after the fight was done, and then his first act was to tear up the of recommendations for sergeant’s warrants to fill the fow vacancles n gr th my existin The new list made no mentlon whatsoever of Private Holt, CHAPTER XI. What had become of Captain Enyart's benevolent plan of sonding Holt home with Lane? Early in February, while the Army of tho Teanessee was closing in around Donelson, and their comrades of the Ohio were concentrating at Nashville, the doctors procounced that mother-coddled young seapegrace quite able to travel, and some were 80 flinty-hearted as to say he might as well travel to the front Norman, on the contrary, was appurently fretting him- self {nto another fever. Far from taking comfort in the daiutles tendered him by Mrs, Lane (who from the day of the | drawatic announcement of his release from charge of the guard had mcunted another | in the shape of herself, to sce that mever | again had he Daisy a chaunce for a word), the lad was nervously eager to seo the general commauding, to secure a fair, full trial by general court-martial, and the trivmphant vindication he considered solutely necessary to his soldier Pale, weak and languid, he had managed twice to go to headquarters, but Captain yurt had been sent to the front on some important mission. There was one among the busy officers coming and going whoese face was familiar to the tall young ab- | honor soldler in his locse, {ll-fitting uniform. Ouly once e had speech with an overs worked alde-de-camp, who took down his name, company and regiment, told him it wag impossible to see the gencral, and that, even if he did, it would do no good. A soldier could not demand t 1 A trial cculd not be held without witnesses. The witnesses were still prisoners in the hauds of the enemy, the Lord only knew where, and the best Norman could do was to take the furlough granted him, get & rest, a lttle strength, and then rejoin his regiment. The alde was not unkind. He was simply bluft, straightforward and brief. He had to be Then Holt asked when he could hope to see Captain Enyart. “Dack day afier tomorrow. Show in the next man, orderly Now, what do you want? Aud Norman wearlly went his way. There was time for little sentiment in those days. He walked slowly back to the big hospital and paiufully climbed the stairs. He had seen but little of that beloved face of late. “Dalsy 18 visiting friends,” explained Mrs, | Lane. “The air of the hospital Is bad | for her and now t Ing so well it is 1 of hereelt," those friends their home, ogain saw plainly at Theo and you are do- st she should take care I he only krew vho and where | were it would be casy to seck 1t would be joy to tee her face He had even sought to ascertain, but that Mis. Lane fatbomed bis enemy. on erles toward Corinth with reorganized under the its dog thelr only recration cards, their only But & month Is a long time in face of the No man can say what a day may brirg forth. The regiment slowly marched combined Halleck, presently found itself doing picket duty on an exposed flank, in irregular fashion along a bare hillside; thick woods surrounding them, tents pitched tortuous and Tennessee and w day mander, Sidney Johnston reaction, and guard duty, the best of men go stale, and the Emmets were not the best their new commanding oft respect. He had lost th popularity. The first sergeant whom had appointed was obnoxlous to the com- plish something, Norman had offered his ald fn making out the company papers, but with odd constraint of manner the new fivst sergeant replied that he had all the help he necded. Yet when one day the adjutant himself came over to Mr. Malloy's tent and swore roundly because the morning report was again all wrong, 1t was Holt straightened It cut at the sergeant's re- quest. “I—I'd be glad It yon would glve me a Nft." the latter had sald, “only I don't want the leutensnt to know." In a dozen ways Norman was made to feel that with jealous vigllance Malloy was keeping him in the background, standing between him and every possibility of preferment Yet on all occasions Holt showed every outward semblance of soldierly respect, scrupulously saluting or standing attention In the presence of the lleutenant, a thing doing. The Emmets got to straggling all over the ccuntry in scarch of illicit stills or wutler ehops. They were perpetually being arrested by patrols. The division and brigade commanders rasped the colonel and the colonel rasped Malloy. “I can't help 1t,” #aid the last named officer. “The men are taking it out of me for making Trott first sergeant instead of one of their own Micks. Besides, I'm handicapped as no other company How 50" demanded the colonel. “You know well enough, sir,” was the answer. “The man they elected first lleu- tenant is one of their own set. I dare say he's at the bottom of half their devilment, if indeed he fsn't wors and writing most of the time. D'you sup- pose that's for his own Information?" The colonel looked up, startled. though still half in doubt. “My knuckles uche yet,” he said, “from the rap they got on Holt's mccount as to that business. before accusing him again.” “That's why 1 don’t interfere with him. If he thought he was closely watched It would put him on his guard dizziness yellow eyes - costive sloeplossness bad breath THE ABOVE Funetional heart < Hudyan corrects the evil, thrown in on the left and by the death of their herole coms With nothing to do but gamble For er they hud no elements of his he pany for that If no other reason, and *“tho byes” proceeded to make life a burden to bim. In the furtherance of his determina- tion to be useful, to get ahead, to accom- who fow others of the men now ever thought of He's making maps He studied the young officer’s face awhile, as Belleview You must be sure of your ground But now that Buell befriends bim it i§ making him in- Pres him dependent, not to say insubordinate ntly he'll grow less cautious. Give rope enough, sir, and he'll hang himselt And the story that Holt was making | maps and writing had foundation. His sore | heart turned in repulsion from the low ns- soclations of the camp, with its Incessint gaming and frequent drink. He welcomed every chance to go on scout of patrol. Ho welcomed guard and picket duty, held him self constantly ready for service and fn the course of ten days had learned more about the roads, streams and bridges and abs doned farms within five miles of camp than any officer in his regiment. He mado rough field notes, plotted maps, kopt a diary and would have written letter after letter had he bad any one to write fo saving that, any safe place in which store his pages. There is no security in t soldler knapsack and that was all allowed him. He had written twice to Theodore who had never rejoined the company, but was reported as on detached service in the office of the assistant adjutant general, headquarters department of the Ohio. In- fluence had got the lad a “soft billet” whilo his comrades were afleld. No answer came. He had written to Kate Ray, a long letter, telling her his own story of the night scout to Belleview and bogging her for news of those he loved--north as well a8 south but as yet no answer came. Not once had Mrs. Lane written, despite her promise. For over three months h had been without tidings of his father and brother, when one soft, molst, yet sunshiny, May morning there came news in an unlooked-for way. It was barely 9 o'clock The aull, dis tant boom of the guns told that Halleck was bammering away mbout Cornith. The air was drowsy and still, and the camp wore 1ts usualy frowsy, listless look. True to old teachings and natural instinct, Holt insisted ou keeping hin part, at least of the little tent in order and decency. His mates were Corporal Connelly, a rollicking Irish- man, and a quiet, homesick lad by the name of Brentan both his stanch and devoted friends, both, mainly th rough his Influence, fighting shy of the kh element of which the company was 8o largely comrosed, both on the good books of Captain Gaffney and slated by him for advanceme nt, both, there fore, no favorites of Malloy's. The throeo were busy cleaning their Epringflelds, for a heavy rain had wet them when on patrol the night before, when they were suddenly aware of some commotfon In camp. Thres or to officers, mounted, followed by orderlies and A little escort, camo trotting briskly through the heavy red soil of the country rond that siirt orderly was doubi the foremost 1 the fleld. The colonel's uicking to koep up with They wanted Licutenant Malloy, who wasn't at his tent. ‘‘Never mind," said the leader, impetuously, “Where's the first sergeant?” And in answer to the question given fn a high- pitched, tenor volce, Company € to a man dropped whatever it was at, cards principally, and poked its frowsy heads out into the sunshine There rat in saddle, his horse tmpatient as the rider, switching nervously about, a elender, deep-chested, little man, with snapping black eyes, close-cropped bla k hair and beard, a prominent nose and a queer combination of costume. He wore a slant-peaked forage cap, pulled down over his forehead, a snug-fitting, single-breastd uniform frock, every button In its hole, tha usual red sash, black belt and saber, with dark blue riding trousers tucked into high boots, but on his shoulders gleamed brand new eliver spreadengles on yellow straps, the decoration of a colonel of cavalry. Evi- dently he had just stepped from the grade of captain at the utmost to that of colos -l and there had not yet been time to get the | double-breasted coat. Every man in the | Emmets spotted him for a “regular’ at the | instant. Some even went further and de- clared him “thrue blue” whiah meant green as the sod they swore by, (To be Continued.) | Cook's Imperial Extra Dry Champagne has a delightful aroma. 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