Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 13, 1901, Page 24

ey e | | } { E i (Copyright, 191, by G. W. Dillingham Co.) Norman Holt, favorite son of an old Ken- tucky family, I reprimand West Point for duelling and is withdrawn by his high spirited father. His home-coming in the winter of 1 is celebrated by an old-fash foried Kentucky Chr Athering Among the guests nre T daugh tor of Dr. Holt's iaw Jurnett Malloy, both of Cincin ngs ‘letters of intr partner, Mr received, ‘but mun Hoit by Malloy separates Miss Lan party during @ fox hunt and mas ball the same evening u of proprietorship distasteful to Dalsy o chnoxious to hia rival, Norman Holt 1 fil-feeling 18 forgotien when at surrounded Dr. Holt to drink th mas punch, which ceremony is int by @ midnight messenger, who the dangerous fllness of Judge Investigation roveals his financlal o in & hopeless tangle and the Holt fortune was found unconscious. Lieutenant Malloy, declared that, going to lylng on the grass asleep and The officer of the guard, the bridge with a small patrol, he hadl halted bis party in the shadow of the trees, while he crept forward to reconnoiter, He THE OMAHA DAILY BEF: SUNDAY, JA | porarily, at least, of newspapers, a slow | finding of their feet on the part of eleven | overciad, superheated men, an uplifting of | hared right hands, and then in the samo Hrmry monotone the judge advocate reeled | off ths words of the same old oath bindin “you and each of you to well and truly try and determine the matter now before you | botwaen the United States of America and ‘(hl‘ prisoner to be tried and to duly ad i minister justice according to the provisions | | of an act establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States without partiality, favor or affection and If any doubt should arise not explained by said articles, then according to your consclence, the best of your understanding and the custom of wa= in like cases. And and gone down under the bank, and [8on until there came a day that brought Bob Enyart, n and assistant in- spector ge back from the from where, as luck would have it, he had me poor, bewlildered old Gaffn heard story, then that of the colonel, whom he knew by reputation only, and the first was surprised and troubled to find no sentry | thing he did on reaching Nashville was to At the ma but there was no reply up his party and bade them search. Darcy found the accused several yards away trom where the rifle rested against the rail lying under the bank, or perhaps the slo of the bank, and sound asieep. friends of the accused, the bridge. was gone. In a There was his rifle, but the | low tone he called Alarmed he brought Private | Lieutenant arclifte, Sergeant Shannon, Privates Bren n, Colt and Kelly, all of whom were good | wera witnesses to | tact, it could be said although that | duced from | authorize ask where Holt was to be found and then to go and find him Eleven strong £at the court on the mo- mentous morning when the case of Norman Holt was called, the array having been re- thirteen as the result of the heat and a resort on the part of one of thelr memtership to unkallowed stimulant, to proceed with the business be- fore them, even though reduced below the original thirteen. Eleven red-faced, red- sashed, blue-coated men, and one palli | close the sente his | when they reached the spot Holt was sitting | nerve-racked captain in a flannel sack, the | up and looking about him in a dazed, be- wildered way, and Lieutenant Malloy opined | duty t at Darcy had endeavored to rouse him 2nd save him from deserved punishment, | but as it happened the licutenant was close at Darcy's heels, and saw Holt's recumbent form before Darcy had time by pinching or shoving to warn him of the officer’s pres ence. Then, such was Malloy's sense of duty, that he felt compelled to make an example of a soldier who could be so reckless of a sacred charge and he responsibility. Darcy, to the colonel, vould admit nefther pinelt nor shove, though axed him was he sick.” Private Bren- nan begged the colonel to remember that Holt was dolng double duty, having taken his, Brennan's, turn before ent ing upon his own, and Brennan was overwhelmed with misery at thought of what the generous judge advocate of the court, assembled for and the latter looked dublously the prisoner as he quietly took his se nd a calm, sad survey of his judges. In the exercise of his prerogative as legal adviser of the accused, as well as his prosecutor, and with laudable intent to expedite tho ac- tion of the court, Captain Purdy had talked serfously for an hour with the young Ken- tuckian, had urged him to plead guilty, make a etatement setting forth the ex- hausting nature of the duties he had been called upon to perform for several days prior to his offense; to call on his captain, or anybody else he could think of, for testi- mony as to character, and then throw him- selt on the mercy of the court. “It's the best you can do,” sald he. *“The evidence of the officers of the guard, of Sergeant Shannon and others is bound to convict you, and a on | you do further swear that you will not dis- of the court until it shall by the proper au you disclose or dls- have been thority, published neither will cover the vote or opinfon of any particular member of the court-martial unless re- quired to give evidence thereof as a wit- ness before a court of justice In due course of law, 80 help you God'—and passed the book up the table to the president, who in turn cleared his throat and swore the judge advocate to cqual secrecy. Whereupon the court flopped back to Its seats and selzed palmleaf fans, while Purdy fumbled for a of the charges and specifications, read them aloud in the samo sing-song manner, winding up with “How say you to the specifications, guilty or not gullty?" “Not guilty,” was the quiet reply “And to the charge “Also not gullty “Be seated. Call Licutenant Malloy.” And the court looked up and o did the crowd as the first and chief witness for the prose- cution, in new, trim-fitting unitorm, with spotless gloves and shining sword, entered, raluted, uncovered his shapely head and ungloved and raised his slender white hand as the Judge advocate faced him and, emo- tlonless, monotonous, perfunctory as ever, sald You swear the evidence in the case now in hearing shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God At which polnt the prisoner lifted his head and looked straight into the pale fac of his superior officer, the lfeutenant lately commanding Company who sald briefly “I do,”" and arranging his sash tassels and coat skirts and avolding the prisoner's eyes, “WITHOUT 80 MUCH AS A GLEAM OF RECOGNITION IN HER BRIGHT, SEARCHING EYES."” Henry and Norman enter office in Cineinnatl, Norman enlists a8 & private in the Ohlo Infantry. Malloy, through political influences, is liou- tenant'in the same company, and Henry Holt joina the confederate forces. Norman is ordered to conduct a skirmishing party under Captain Wing to Belleview n search of prominent rebels. Belleview raid fails, ‘Wing Is captured and Norman s accused of troachery. Brain fever saves him from trial and takes him to the hospital. Charges ainst Norman are disproved by Engart. Norman ' Fojoins hin reximent and alds Sheridan in upturln* Henry Holt. Nor- man Holt drugged by Mailoy while on picket duty, s found asleep at his post. CHAPTER X1V, A general court-martial has been or- dered to meet in the city of Nashville. Certain officers were to be brought before 1t and when thelir cases had been disposed of then came the turn of several enlisted men, whose offenses were of so serious a character they could not properly be tried by a minor military tribunal. It was rald- July when the court assembled. It was mid-August when the findings in the cases of the commissioned viotims were decided and signed. The weather had been hot and sultry. The court was tired out and in no judicial mind by the time the first of the soldter cases was reached. Men grow crabbed who have to sit day after duy | through the hottest hours, buttoned up to the ohin I those absurd blue frock coats and sashed and belted, when nature and ocammon sense both clamor for alr and freedom. It was hard for the court, but it was harder on the prisoners awaiting trial, for they had to swolter in a wooden bakeoven of a guardhouse, tormented day and night by heat, mosquitoes and anxlety fonocent or gullty, it made no difference. The privilege of belng cleared by the court fnvolved weeks or even months of prelim- fnary durance vile. The presumption of innocence until declared gullty accorded the civillan carries no comfort to the sol-| dier of Uncle Sam. Ball s something he wots not of. The soverelgn citizen who has clubbed his wife, mobbed the sheriff or robbed a bank and can induce a friend to 0 ball for him—and who cannot?—breathes the alr of frcedom until summoned for trial. The ldier, perhaps falsely ac- cused of some minor neglect, must roast with the felons under guard until his case is called. He has no rights the natlon seems bound to respect. And of such as these, all through the blazing July weather and into the earlier weeks of the dog days, was Norman Holt, vrivate Company C, —th Ohlo infantry vol- unteers, under charge of one of the gravest crimes known to the military calendar, ntinel sleeping on post in front of the enemy." They had sent him to Nashville the sec- ond week in July. The colonel had investl- gated as thoroughly as was possible the caso against him, and, with secret reluc- tance, had been forced to the belief that there was nothing to hope for. The evi- dance seemed conclusive. He was a mem- ber of a plcket guard duly mounted. He bad been regularly posted as sentry in front of the picket covering the footbridge over the stream. He had reported suspiclous nolses, fudicating movements of the enemy offort had cost his tent mate. Shannon was an unwilling witness, He didn’t wish to speak agalnst Mr. Holt and didn't wish to go back on the lleutenant. Shannon had served in the Mexican war, and was be- lieved to be & “regular” without a regular discharge, but the colonel drew from him the admission that the lieutenant was “ex- cited 1ike,” when he came back to the plcket, and had sent for Lieutenant Scar- cliffe and bade Darcy and Brennan, as well s his escort, Shannon, Colt and Kelly, who had come forward with him from the sup- ports, to follow swiftly. “There's some- thing wrong at the bridge,” says he, “and I can't make out what's wrong with Con- nolly and Holt.”” They hadn't been at the bridge a minute before they found Holt, or much more than a minute when the cor- poral's cries were heard. Shannon begged permission to go over with the two men, 1t tho lloutenant wouldn't go, and try to roscue thelr comrade, but Malloy sternly torbade. "It {8 bad enough to lose ono good man,” said he. “ You'll all be needed. Connolly knew he had no business to cross | thoe creek. Ho shouldn't have gone!” Then, soon after four had come the brisk, sharp attack of dismounted cavalry all along the left front. Malloy's pickets were driven in on the reserves, but there made a sturdy stand. Tho visitors who bad been ‘“feeling the line” fell back through the leaty woods and that was the last of Connolly. No man could say what bad been his fate, but one man sald what- ever it was he had brought it on himselt and this statement came to the ears of Norman Holt, well-nigh overwhelmed with the magnitude of his own new trouble, but, even in his sore estate, mindful of tho rights and honor of a friend and com- rade. To his sympathetic guards he pro- tested that Connolly had gone in compil- ance with Malloy's express instruction, if | not positive orders, and some of the men found means to tell this to thelr curious old captain, who was almost delirious with | mingled fever of his own and fear for Nor- man's sake—and Gaffney told euch officers | s came to seo him and they told the col- | onel and the colonel sent for Holt and de- | manded to know what the story meant, | “It means exactly what I eald, sir, 1 heard Mr. Malloy say: ‘Then try it, Con- | nolly. It will be a feather in Company | C's cap,’ and it was sald In answer to a | suggestion of the corporal’s that he could steal across and hear what was golng on." | But, agailost an officer's denlal, what | avalls the story of an accused and des- perate man—a man who barely ten minutes | after the departure of Connolly was found | away from his asslgned post, his arms, his duty, and sleeping stupidly under the bank To his colonel Holt had declared he wa not asleep, but fighting desperately against it. He declared that he had been over- come by some strange, powerful stupor. He never before had had such a selzurc He could almost believe he had been drugged, yet he had nothing to eat or drink except the hardtack and coffee shared lberally by a dozen men, not one of whom had experienced any such sensa- tion. The story did not help Norman. It seemed as though he were past help. Ten n his front, and yet, motwithstanding his days he was held under guard at the front, knowladge of thys dangerous condition of | then sent by order to Nashville, where he court is always more apt to be hard on fel- lows who fight than those who come out lik little men and frankly admit thelr guilt. And, to his manifest disappointment, if not chagriv, the accused bad very respectfully, but positively, declined “I was uot asleep,” said he. “I was con- scious of what was going on around me. 1 was on the verge of a swoon, perhaps, but I am not guilty of the charge, and I will not plead gulilty. Purdy had communicated the declsion of the accused to tho court, and that august body shrugged its shoulders, whilé the president, a colonel of volunteers, with long service in the regulars, ominously said, “All right,” but was manifestly disturbed, on looking up from the newspaper he had been reading, to see among the gathering spectators Captain Bob Enyart of the head- quarters staff, a West Pointer, and a man of mark and Influence. “What's he doing herc?" asked the president of Purdy. Says he's Interested in this Holt's,”” answered the judge advoc cades ambo, 1 suppose, which m Blue Grassers—Kentucky cousins The colonel frowned. It never pleases a court to feel that it is under super- vision. Headquarters might have to pass upon its finding and sentence. If so, it was obviously indelicate In headquarters to have Its representative present during the trial itself. Several other officers had entered and taken seats, but of them the president took no account. A dozen sol- dlers were grouped on the opposite side of the long, bare room. The guard yawned in the corridor without. The witnesses waited and wilted fn an adjolning room save Malloy, who with nervous step paced up and down the hall. It s a gruesome thing to swear away a man's life, but had he not practically so sworn already? Could he now recede from his original reports 4 statements? Would he it he could? e judge advocate had purposely sent hig witnesses for the prosecution out of the case of te. “Ar- ans both | prisoner's sight as silently, passively, sadly Vorman climbed the stairs from the hot sunshine of the outer street. The only hope, help or consolation that had come to him since they sent him back from camp and out of range of sympathetic Emmets, was brought to him by Enyart's brief visit, and his soul had been faint and weary within him. But Enyart's vehement, urgent words had sounded the call to battle again, That spirit of fight still lived. He would not die without brave defense of his own good name and bitter blows at them who would destroy It “You still adhere to your decision?” asked Purdy, as he signaled Holt to draw | his chair closer to the table. A grave bow | was the only enswer, and with a nod to | the president, the judge advocate aros: | cleared his throat and in perfunctory fashion rapidly read oft the order conven | ing the court, and without the falutest al- teration of tone or manner, but as though the formula were printed at the bottom of the page, turned on the prisoner with the stereotyped query: ‘“You have heard the order convening the court. Do you ob- fect to belng tried by any member named therein? You do not, and the court will now be sworn.’ There was a rasp and rattle of chairs, u things, had quit his rifle and hls assigned seemed to bave not a friend in the garrl- clatter of swords, s laying aside, tem- sank into a chair on the opposite side at | the foot of the table; answered in low, con- trolled voice, the usual questions as to kis | name and rank, his knowledge of the iden- | laboriously tity of the accused and the nature of the dutles which he had been performing. But beforo he had fairly begun his narrative of tho events leading to the arrest of the ac- cused, there came interruption. A cavalry orderly appeared at the door with a note in his hand. At a nod from the presiding officer he clicked into the room, his saber claniinz, ard handcd the note to the colonel, who glanced at the superscription, frowned, pointed to Captain Enyart, ated where he could watch Malloy's face, and motioned the orderly to take the note to him. Enyart recelved 't with surprise, read it with a star: and without a word and only a quick glance at Norman left the room. In three minutes he was back, alert and attentive as e and Mulloy, who had begun his story with something like confidence, changed color, and spoke more low It differed in no sentlal particular from that already ro- ferred (o, but was long in the telling, as the Judge advocate was compelled, such be- g the military fashlon of the day, to write out every word. To narrative the prisoner lis- close attention and with chany in expression, his eyes over on Malloy's palid face. When the witness had finished the judge advocate pondered a moment, wrote rapidly and then read a question to bring forth the evidence that the accused had been duly warned and mounted for picket duty and regularly posted as sentry. Malloy was sure as to the first and ignorant as to the second. That was the business of the ser« &eant or corporal. The judge advocate, in the same methodically tollsome way, grad- ually elicited other points that were of value—that Malloy had inspected the sen- tries, had found the accused apparently well and vigilant earlier in the night; that sounds had been heard across the stream, indicating the prescnce of the enemy fn the immediate front; that an attack in con- #lderable force actually took place soon after 4 o'clock while he was at the rear escorting the prisoner to the custody of the guard. ‘“‘Previous experiences with the prisoner,” he sald, “had glven him grave reasons to doubt his loyalty.” And the entire tened with hardly a here . came fnterruption. Captain Enyart, though only a spectator, fairly SPrang from his seat, so suddenly dia he rise, and members of the court could not but see that ne was striving to attract the attention of the accused, who sat motion. loss and with his dark eyes still fixed upon the face of the witness. Two of the younger members as suddenly glanced at the Judge adyocate, who continued calmly WrIting. Another, a major of calvary, see Ing the excitement in Enyart's manner and cudgelling his brain for the be- thought him of something he had heard or read s to frrelevant matter and turned to tha president cause, “Has the accused any counsel—anybody to act as amicus curiae, may queried impressively “How s that, Mr. Judge Advocate minded the head of the table. “I have myself advised him to the best of wy ability,” sald Captaln Purdy, flush- ing. “But if any member of the court—'" de- T ask?" ho | NUARY 13, 1901, -« ‘o try and not to counsel,” Interpcsed 1l|l'| major, severely But 1 object to the in troduction of frrslevant matter, despite the Judge advocate’'s apparent approval.” He glanced at Enyart, now slowly settling back into his seat as though for approval and support, and added immediately 1| request that the court be cleared.” | Cleared it was of spectators, witnessss | and the person most vitally Interested, but, In accordance with the unenlightened prac- tico of the day, the judge advocate re. mained. In the star chamber discussion | that ensued the prosecution was allowed to be represented in full force. The dofense waa—detenseless. Out in tho ballway guards, pectators, witnecses and prisoner waited twenty to hear result, but | Enyart seized the opportunity for a few whispered words with Holt. Something he told him rande the young soldier's dark eyes light—his wan face flush with sudden amaze and joy. Narrowly, suepiclously, yet fur- tively watching them from acrots the cor- | ridor, Lieutenant Malloy felt a chill of | foreboding. It was one thing to checkmate the clumsy efforts of a belpless veteran like Gaffney. It might be a very different thing to measure wits with this young regular— Independent, {nfluential, fearless—and some- thing told Malloy the time was coming. Tt spurred him to renewed, to even reck cffort. The door was again thrown op Court, witness, accused and spectators re- | appeared as before, and, with tones not al- | togethor placid, the judge advocato au- nounced that the objection of the member had not been sustained—the testimony | would be recorded as given. “But, sald he, “it the prisoner does not fully under- stand, as I strove to make him, that ho is entitled to counsel, I again repeat.” And Norman, rising, sdld respectfully that he preferred to rest hfs case with the honor of the court, whereat the president was reminded that it was time for luncheon and #o ordered. The court stood adjourned until 1:30 p. m. It was nearer 2 when pro- ceedings were resumed, however, for the principal witness, Lieutenant Malloy, had to be sent for. Tho orderly reported that the lleutenant “‘bad some kind of a stroke.” Heat, probably, said the court. The sentry on duty at the hall below gald the leuten- ant had come rushing downstalrs “lookin’ | slck™ about 1:30 and had gone to the ad- Jolning drug store, where the proprietor in- formed a presumably sympatheitc captain of the staff who followed shortly that tho officer had asked for brandy and hurried out at once. Something had occurred to up- set Lieutenant Malloy, but the court knew not what. Certain spectators might have thrown light upon the matter had the court inquired. Just before 1:30, as Mr. Malloy reached the top of the stairs, he became suddenly aware of two ladles standing in the corridor and in conversation with the prisoner, the guards making no objection, and Captain Enyart standing by, apparently approving. One was gray haired and moth- erly, the other young, tall, with gracetul, spirited bearing and a proud, yet winsome face. Without so much as a gleam of rec- ognition in her bright, searching eyes, this latter looked squarely into the face of the arriving officer, who took off his cap, bowed, balf thought to smile, but stood one in- stant comfounded at the open, obvlous, pal- pable “cut,”” then, as though in confusion, it not panic, turned and fled back the way he came. Miss Ray,” sald Enyart, “you have de- moralized the case for the prosecution. “God be thanked if I have,” the plous reply. minutes the | CHAPTER XV, A gleam of light {n the midst of the dark- ness of despond had come to Norman Holt at last, but it was all too brief. Two days only did he see Kato Ray and her gentle mother. One long talk only, and that in the presence of the officer of the guard, was he permitted with these old and dear friends. Even though by this time it was known that the Rays of Lexington had held fast to the cause of the union, there were storles afloat, and stories belleved, that the heart of the proud Kentucky girl was pledged to a gallant soldier in the southern army, and that there was frequent corre- spondence, maintained who could say how? Everybody seemed to know Henry Holt had been her devoted admirer. BEverybody seemed to take it for granted that the af- fair was settled—everybody, that is, ex- cept @ possible few with hopes of their own. Everybody seemed to bave heard that slnce his escape from the guards and his rescue by Morgan's cavalry, Henry Holt had been seen at the old homestead, and, furthermore, had been “looked for" about Lexington. There were not lacking stern- hearted generals in the unlon army to hold that the Rays knew too much of our force and the disposition thereof, and who ob- fected to their being allowed to wander at will within our lines. The statement that they had come to Nashville solely to cheer and comfort Norman Holt only strength- ened the bellef in Kate's engagement to his elder brother and augmented the vague feeling that hud so unaccountably lngered that Norman Holt, at heart, at least, was disloyal. Just one long talk had been per- mitted them, a talk in which she told him that she had, indeed, written a long letter, mainly about bome matters, but fucldentally much that she believed about Daisy Lane, and more about Mr. Malloy. It was her bellef that the parents were striving to induce Daisy to accept that young man, and that Daisy was vallantly standing out | against them. It was her beliet that the | Malloys, father and son, were obtaining |the same influence over Mr. [that the senator had exercised over Judge McIntyre, and ehe deplored | it more than she could tell. Had Norman |no susplcion as to the fate_of her letter? | Norman had, but no proofy whatsoever. |The man to whom it had been entrusted | had long since been sent to the hospital | with fever and was now a deserter from |the army and could not be found. She {told him of Belleview—that it was still | safe, still cared for by the overseer and | his family and surrcunded by many of | | the ola colony of blacks, though how they | lived and apparently throve was a mystery. | | The doctor had at last accounts been vis iting his sister, but he remained with her |only a few days. Henry, and here, though | | Kate's clear eyes fell not and she looked | | Norman full in the face, the color deep- |ened in ber cheeks at the mention of the | | name—Henry was well and on duty with | General Bragg and counted on seeing Ken tucky again in the near future, a very sig- | | nificant plece of In€ormation, perhaps, for | |a loyal girl to possess, yet it was the | | oren boast, as it was the lively hope of the | | whole south, that the battle flags would be flaunting along the Ohlo before the world | was much more than a month older. And | Kate declared to Norman, among o(ln-r‘ things, that she knew Henry In no | accused him, save for having sided with the north, as he expressed it, against the | south. It was a favorite sophlstry (o ig- | nore the union in the matter and to hold | that it was only section for soction, not | the unfon, struggling for life. Dut when | Norman asked the question, “How about father?" she faltered. She could not re- ply, because she knew the flery old phy- | siclan had heard it all; had heard of | Henry's capture by Sheridan's troopers, | guided, brother against brother, by the | younger #on, and that the father's wrath was beyond description, Trust a woman to divert a man from a perilous tople! She had saved the next bit for just euch an emergenc way “Ouly four days ago, Norman, 1 saw Dalsy," eald she, I spent nearly two hours with her at the old house on Fourth strect But Mrs. Lane never left us." Norman had glanced up quickly at the first announce ment. His eyes again fell at the last, b knew what she would say. There bad been “Members of the court have been sworn | no opportunity for confidences. The Lanes | of the long, long trial that followed strovew to cross-question and to extract evidence that might tend to shake the strong tess timony accumulating hour by hour against him, but just ns before, when Captain Wing could have cleared him of the charge of treachery at Belleview, 80, now, the one man whose ovidence might save him was had heard with great sorrow, sald she, of | this new trouble that had como upon him, but were confident, at least Mrs, Lane 40 expressed herself, that he would come | through “with flying colors.”” Dalsy, speak- ing of color, had little or mone. Dalsy| looked white and wan. Her mother sald it was the heat. They had been accustomed | either dead or a prisoner in the enemy's to go to the country for the summer, butd lines either Wing nor Corporal Cone this year they felt they could not leave| nolly had yet been heard from. In those days the accw 1 could not take the w ness stand in his own behalf. He could not | make a statement. In those days the judge advocate was not excluded, as now, from lan was hurrying out of the Peninsula. The| the deliberations of the court upon the evi army didn’t like or trust the new general [ dence. He was there to argue and plead, from the west, and things were at sixes| If need be, the cause against the prisoner, and sovens, On the last day of the trial fearful that big battles would be fought | Norman Holt had read with choking voice around Washington, and that the south |his briet, soldierly, but solemn appeal. Heo would make a dash on Cincinnatl. “‘Mrs, |Felterated what Malloy had denled under Lano talked all the time," sald Kate, it |08th, that the one witnese who could have was Mr. Lane sald this, or Mr. Lane wrote | Alded him had been practically ordered by that. Mr. Lane thought all manner of Malloy to cross the bridge, to ereep withim things, and it was evident to the clear- | arshot of the encmy. He declared that sighted girl that Mrs. Lane was nervous, | e belleved now that was all a part of & anxious and {1l at ease, that her incessant | deliberately arranged plan to ruin him. He chatter was to prevent questioning of either | belleved the coffee given him had been Daisy or herself, and so, although Kate |rugged. He had no evidence of any kind had stayed and lunched with shem, sho came | 10 offer unless they could summon his own away with as little knowledge of their real | CAptain as to character, or that new young Cincinnatl. Mr. Lane was on duty in front | of Washington with McDowell's corps, and they were very antlous, for Stonewall” | Jackson was nearing the Rapidan. McClel- Mr. Lane wrote that he was |and did it sentiments toward Norman as when she |Drigadier general, Sheridan, who had urged entered the house. Neither had she op- being commission The judge advo- portunity to refer to Mr. Malloy and to | Cate sald he was ready to admit that the what she considered his persccution of | C4Ptain could testify to his having been & Norman. But there had been one signifi- |*0llier without u flaw. So might Sheridan, cant eplsode, to which she made no allusion | {housh he had only scen him once. These were, Whatever. She did not wish Norman to after all, matters of individual opla- know that, as she left the house, followed |'“0 And had nothing to do with the case. to the door wistfully by Daisy, volubly b o question before the court was whether her mother, there on the steps, as though |9F 10 Holt had gone to ‘sleep on his post just about to enter, stood a portly, pros- |8 the immediate front of the ny, and perous looking, somewhat overdressed man | ¥D¢D the court was cleared and closed for of fifty years or more, whom Mrs. Lane at |d¢liberation the prosecution remained to onco addressed as “Senator,” and whom |ATEUC. the defense went back to fail Miss Ray knew at once to be the senior And three weeks later, with a stroke Malloy. As she glanced back over her | ©f bfs pen, the general commandiog the de= shoulder, she saw one piteous look in | PATtment-Grant and Buell belng furtber Daisy's white face and it haunted her alf |1© the south watching the mysterious the way to Nashville. Thither had they MOVeS Of Dauregard and Bragg, approved Journeyed under escort of Major Marshall | the findings and confirmed the sentence of a near neighbor and old friend. There they | I COUTt, “two-thirds of the members had communicated at once with Euyare, |(Bereof concurring that Private Norman Holt, Co. ', —th Ohlo Volunteer infantry, gullty of the crime of sleeplng on post, be shot to death by musketry and presented their letter to the command- Ing general, who received it, and then du- blously and within forty-eight hours of their arrival Enyart received orders to the front, | There was a strange, Marshall to the rear, and the ladies wero| in the presence of his g solemn scene when, ard and certain of volitely told that Major Marshall would | the prisoners, the order promulgating that escort them back to Loulsville, where ruled | Sentence was read. The young officer om a new general commanding the department, | Whom devolved the painful duty had a patriot who knew not Kentuckians and feared them, even gift-bearing and profess- ing loyalty. Kate Ray was wrathtul, in- deed rebellious, but her gentle mother curbed the rising indignation and ready tongue. It was “Bob" Enyart who most felt and could least resent tho gemeral's act. “‘Be of good cheer, Holt, my boy,” he had 1d to the prisoner as he shook h's hand. Even if they have to find 'n accordance with—that one-sided evidence, they'll be sure to recommend, and when the comes up for review you'll be all right. marched with him many a day, shoulder to shoulder, in the battalion of cadets, and though not in the same class, had known him well, and so was not surprised at the | calm, resolute bearing of the almost friend- [less soldier. Holt well knew what to ex- pect. Before the order was in print, the rumor was on the streets and flying from camp to camp “The—the date will be announced in & day or two,” sald the aide-de-camp, in & volco that grew husky and almost inaudl ble. Something in Norman's pale, sad fa | moved him in spite of official effort. “Be of good cheer, Norman,” murmured | general has directed me to ask if you have Kate, with brimmiog eyes, as she clasped |any—any wishes to express.” both his hands in hers. “Somebody's been | “Yes.' sald Norman, promptly, firmly, at work telling tales at our expense, as |“Yes, one. I ask that the officer who they have at yours, but once back In ICen- | swore my life away may be requirel te tucky, we can watch over your interests, | complete his work—that Lieutenant Mal- and weo will." |loy be ordered to command the firing Bo of good cheer, indeed! One or two |party.” junior members of the court fn the course | (To be Continued.) {ALWAYS TIRED Morning, Noon and Night, makes no difference when. 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