Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-13

at sick call, and imperturbable as ever,
on the following morning, and the few
officers who were at headquarters after
guard mounting were able to affirm that
the colonel had been courteous as usual
in his greeting to the medical officer, and
that nothing whatever had been said
about his being away so late the previ-
Gus evening. Capt. Stryker came home
soon after midnight, had a brief talk
with his colonel, and went over to the
stables to inquire into Gwynne's condi-
ton before he went to bed. Parke came
into Perry's room after morning stables,
and told him. as he was yawning and
stretching in bed, that the captain had
had quite long talk with Gwynne that
morning, and that something was up"
he didn't know what. Later in the
day Perry was sent for by Col Brainard
and found the commanding officer in
consultation with Capt. Stryker and two
other troop commanders.
At their request he repeated the story
of his adventure at Dunraven, beginning
with his Instructions to the men he left
B
lands swooning;; and about an hour after
he had finished be saw the adjutant with
a small escort ride away down the valley,
and rightly conjectured that the colonel
had sent letter to Dunraven inQuiring
into the cause of the assaults on two
members of his command. Battalion
drill kept him occupied all the morning;
garrison court convened at noon and
sat until skirmish drill began at p. M;
and so it happened that not until near
parade did he find moments time to
himself. He longed to see Mrs. Law
renee and question her as to the nature
of the ''Dunraven stories" she had men
toned; for what had been matter of
indifference to him then had suddenly
become of vivid interest. There were
ladies sitting on the Lawrences' gallery,
he could plainly see, as the cavalry Off
GERS came tramping in from afternoon
stables but he could not hope to ask or
near anything about a matter SO near
his heart in the presence of SO many
sympathetic and interested listeners. He
kept away towards his own gate. there
fore, until he saw that there, leaning on
the gate post. and apparently awaiting
him, stood DR.. Quin.
Perry would gladly have avoided the
doctor, the antagonism he was beginning
to feel for him was of a character that
would hardly brook concealment. Cor
dial and joyous in manner as he was to
almost every man, woman and child he
met, it was all the more noticeable that
to the very few whom he held il dislike
or distrust his bearing was cold and re-
pellent III the last degree. Something
told him the doctor was there to speak
to him about their chance meeting at
Dunraven. He did not want to speak to
him at all. Just now. Yet now could he
hope TO have these matters explained
without meeting and talk? While
ne officers strolied over and stopped
most of them. III front of the group of
ladies at Lawrence's, Perry stalked
straight across the parade and the boun-
dairy road. with his blue eyes fixed on
.he doctor STAGE.
The latter was studying him as he
IF coldness and distrust; possibly he re-
sented it. 1t all events, something
prompted him to speak in a tone less
cordial than he had ever employed to-
wards Perry youngster whom l
thoroughly approve OF" as he said be-
fore he had known him . week. Still
leaning on the gate post, and resting his
head on his hand, the doctor began:
Mr.. Perry, / have been to see you
twice to-day, but could not find you, and
WANTED TO speak with you on matter
of some importance.
You coaldehare-founi me en- drill or
the court. If ANYTHING immediate was
needed Tha7e been nowhere else, ex-
eept to stables, said Perry. shorty.