Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-04-19

WIN tUe SVHi Oil uis WoVcu CBioSus 0oy
Cover, You get tho captain out, ~ ]
tell you, and Ill slip right in, get the
money, stuff some other paper with few
ones and twos In the package; his seal,
his watch and everything IL there In the
saddle bags under his head, and can re-
seal and replace It In five minutes, and
he'll never suspect the loss until the COM
mand all gets together again next week.
BY that time I'll be three hundred miles
away. Everybody will say twas Cover
that robbed him, and you with your five
hundred will never be suspected Iaskcd
him how could he expect the captain TO
go and leave 90 much money In his
bags with no one to guard Il; and he
said he'd bet on II IL did II right. The
captain had had no luck tracking In.
dians that summer, and the regiment
was laughing at him. He knew they
were scattering every which way now,
and was eager to strike them. All Ihad
10 do was 10 creep in excited like. wake
him up sudden, and tell him ! was sure
had heard an Indian drum and their
scalp dance song out beyond the pickcts
that they were over towards Battle
Butte, and he could hear them II no
would como out on the river bank. He'd
go quick says Cover, and think Of
nothing
"And-I wouldn't believe It, but he
did. He sprang up and went right out
with me, just hinging his overcoat round
him; and he never seemed TO want to
come in. Tho wind was blowing soft
like from the southeast, AMI he stood
thero straining his ears trying 10 hear
the sounds told him Of; but at last
he gavo It up, and we went back to
camp, and he took his lantern and
looked In his saddle bags, and shook
for fear; but he seemed to find every
thing all right, and in tho next
ten minutes he was asleep, and Cover
came and whispered TO me. and went
with him, and he gave me five hundred
dollars, In twcnties. Now you're bound
says he; keep the sentries of while !
get my horse And that's tho last l
ever saw of him. Then q strange thing
happened. Twas hardly daylight when
courier came galloping up, and ] called
the captain, and he read tho dispatch,
and says he, by heave.. Clancy, you
were right after all. There are Indians
over there. Why didn't trust your
ears? Call up the whole command.
The Rifers have trecd them at Battle
Butte, and Capt. Rayner has gone with
his battalion. We are TO escort the
wagons 10 where the boat lies beyond the
bend, and then push over with all the
horsemen we can take.
IL was after daylight when we got
started, but We almost ran the wagons
cross country to the boat, and there
Capt. Hull took + troop apd what there
was of his own, leaving only ten men back
with the wagons, and not till then was
Cover missed; but all were in such
hurry to get TO the Indians that no one
paid attention. Mr.. Hayno he begged
the captain to let him go, too, 30 the
train was left with tho wagon master
and the captain Of the boat, and away
we went. You know all about the fight,
and how twas Mr.. Hayne the captain
called to and gave his watch and the
two packages of money when he was
ordered TO charge. was right by his
side, and ! swore-God forgive me!
that through the crack and tear
IN the paper / could SEQ the lay
ers Of greenbacks, when ] knew
twas only some ones and twos Cover
had slipped in to make it look right; and
Capt. Rayner stood there and saw tho
packet, too, and Sergt. Walshe and
Bugler White; but them two were killed
with him, SO that twas only Capt. Ray
ner and was left as witnesses, and never
till we got to Laramie after the cam
paign did the trouble come. ! never
dreamed Of anything ever coming Of it
but that every ono would say Cover
stole the money and deserted; but when
tho captain turned the packages over to
Mr.. Hayne and then got killed, and Mr..
Hayne carried the packages, with the
watch, seal, saddle bags and all, to Chey-
enne, and never opened them till he got
there--two weeks after, when we were
all scattered-then they turned on him,
is own officers did, and said he stole it
and gambled or sent it away in Chey.
cnne.
81 had lost much of my money then,
and Mrs. Clancy got the rest, and ii made
me crazy to think of that poor young
gentleman accused of it all; but was in
for il, and knew it meant prison for
years for me, and perhaps they couldn't
prove it Oh him. got to drinking then,
and told Capt. Rayner that the --th was
down on me for swearing away the young
officers character; and then he took me
to Company Bwhen the colonel wouldn't
have me any more in the --th; and one
night when Mrs, Clancy had been rails
ing my hair and ] wanted money to
drink and she'd give me none, little Kate
told me her mother had lots of money in
a box, and that Sergt. Cover had come
and given it to her while they were get
ting settled in the new post after the
Battle Butte campaign, and he had made
her promise to give it to me the moment
l got back-that somebody was in trou-
BILE, and that must save him: and be-
lieved Kate, and charged Mrs. Clancy
with it, and she beat mo and Kate, and
swore it was all q lie; and never could
get the money.
"And at last came the fire, and il VI as
the lieutenant that saved my life and
Kate's, and brought back to her all that
pile of money through the flames. 1t
broke my heart then, and vowed I'd go
and tell him the truth, but they wouldn't
let me. She told me the captain said he
would kill me il l blabbed, and she
would kill Kate. didn't dare, until
they told me my discharge had come,
and thar was glad when the lieutenant
andthe major caught me in town. When
they promised to take care of little Kate
l didn't care what happened to me. The
money Mrs. Clancy has-except perhaps
two hundred dollars--all belongs to Lieut.
Hayne, since he paid of every cent that
was stolen from Capt, Hull"
Supplemented by Mrs. Clancy's rueful