The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-13

and speak few words to Mrs. Waldron
and heard that lady reply, Certainly; I
will go with you now" What could it
mean? At last, as she was returning to
her sisters room after moments alb
sence, she heard question at which
her heart stood still. 1t was Mrs. Ray
ner who asked:
''But the creature was there, was she
not?"
The answer sounded more like moan
of anguish:
''The creature was his sister. 1t was
her husband who
But. as Capt. Rayner buried his bat
tered face in his hands at this juncture,
the rest of the sentence was inaudible.
Miss Travers had heard quite enough,
however. She stood there one moment,
appalled,, dropped upon the floor the
bandage she had been making, turned
and sought her room, and was seen no
more that night.
Over the day or two that followed this
affair the veil of silence may best be
! drawn, in order to give time for the sedi-
ment of truth TO settle through the
whirlpool of stories in violent circulation.
The colonel came back on the first train
after the adjournment of the court. and
could hardly wait for that formality.
Contrary to his custom Of sleeping on
a question, he was in his office within
half an hour after his return to the post,
and from that time until near tattoo was
busily occupied taking the statements of
the active participants in the affair. This
was three days after its occurrence; and
Capt. Rayner, though up and able to be
about, had not left his quarters. Mrs.
Rayner had abandoned her trip to the
east, for the present at least.
Mr.. Hayne still lay weak and PROSTATE
in his darllened room, attended hourly
by DIR. Pease, who feared brain fever,
and nursed assiduously by Mrs. Hurley,
for whom Mrs. Waldron, Mrs. Stannard,
and many other ladies in the garrison
could not do enough to content them
selves. Mr.. Hurley's wrist was badly
sprained and in a sling; but the colonel
went purposely to call upon him and TO
shake his other hand, and he begged to
W pSiiiiObSb W oSC h1lSs llUIISN, WHO
came in pale and soft eyed, and with u
gentle demeanor that touched the colonel
more than he could tell. Her check
flushed for a moment as he bent low
over her hand, and told her how bitterly
he regretted that his absence from tho
post had resulted in SO grievous an cx-
perience; it was not the welcome he and
his regiment would have given her had
: they known of her intended visit. To
Mr.. Hurley he briefly said that he need
not fear but that full justice would be
, melted out to the instigator or instigators
Of the assault; but, as a something to
make partial amends for their SUFFERING,
he said that nothing now could check
the turn of the tide in their brothers
I favor. All the cavalry officers except
! Buxton, all the infantry officers except
Rayner, had already been to call upon
= him since the night of the occurrence, and
E had striven to show how distressed they
were over the outrageous blunders OF
4 their temporary commander.
: Buxton had written note expressive
] of desire to see him and ''explain," but
; was informed that explanations from
him simply aggravated the injury; and
E Rayner, crushed and Inundated. was
!. fairly in hiding in his room, too sick al
heart to want to see anybody, and wait
ing for the action of the authorities ir
] the confident expectation that nothing
;; less than court martial and disgrace
, would be his share of the outcome. He
4 would gladly have resigned and gone at
!, once, but that would have been resignine
G under virtual charges; he had to stay,
f and his wife had to stay with him. and
g Nellie with her. By this time Nellie
: Travers did not want to go. She had but
s one thought now-to make amends tc
: Mr.. Hayne for the wrong her thoughts
D had done him. 1t was time for Mr.. Var
e Antwerp to come to the wide west anc
d look after his interests, but Mrs. Rayner
: had ceased to urge, while he continued
: to implore her to bring Nellie east al
once. Almost any man as rich and in
s dependent as Steven Van Antwerp would
J. have gone to the scene and settled mat
s tiers for himself. Singularly enough, thi
one solution of the problem seemed neveI
s to occur to him as feasible.
j, Meantime the colonel had patiently un
e raveled the threads and had brought t.
light the whole truth and nothing bu
r the truth. 1t made singuIarly simple
S story, after all; but that was SO much tn,
s worse for Buxton. The only near rela
i ton Mr. Hayne had in the world wa,
thlc -
), before had married a manly, energetic
d fellow, a civil engineer in the employ O
e an eastern railway. During HAYNES
e mountain station" exile Hurley hac
|. brought his wife to Denver, where faI
e better prospects awaited him. He wo,
h promotion in his profession, and wa
g now one of the principal engineers EN-
n ployed by a road running new line
n Though the Colorado Rockies. Journey
il ing to Salt Lake, he came around by wa,
e OF Warrener, so that his wife and h
4 might have look at the brother she ha
l not seen in years. Their train was du
d there early in the afternoon, but wa
: blocked by drifts and did not reach tn
4 station until late at night. There the
5 found a note from him begging them t
n take carriage they would find waitin
S for them and come right out and spen
g the night at his quarters; he would sen
S them back in abundant time to catch til
: westward train in the morning. He coul
It not come in, because that involved th
e necessity Of asking his captains permis
+ sion, and they knew his relations wit
that captain.
e 1t was her shadow Buxton had seen O