The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-02

LuTn EODOGy Out, ANU LCbON'J AAS~eA ~ -
commoded in the least"
"Oh! then you will share quarters
with some of the bachelors" asked the
colonel, with evident relief.
ssNo. SIR and the answer was stern in
tone, though perfectly respectful; Il
shall live as have lived for years-ut-
terly alone
Onecould have heard pin drop in the
ofIice-even on the matted floor The
Colonel half arose:
why, Mr.. Hayne, there is not a va
cant set of quarters in the garrison. You
will have to move some one out If you
decide to live alone
There may be no quarters in the post,
sir. but. if you viii permitme can live
near my company and yet in officers
quarters"
''How so, sir?"
..In the house out there on the edGe-of
the garrison. facing the prairie. 1t is
within stones throw of the barracks of
Company Is, and sexactly ike those built
for the officers in here along the parade"
'.Why, Mr. Hayne, no officers ever
lived there. It is utterly out Of the way
and isolated. l believe it was built for
the sutler years ago, but was bought n
by the government afterwards. Who lives
/ there now, Mr.. Quartermaster?
'ENo one, sir. 1t is being used as atail-
ors' shop; half dozen Of the company
tailors work there; but L car send them
bacl, to their own barracks. The house
is in good repair, and, as Alr. Hayne says,
exactly like those built for officers use
"And you mean you want to live thers
alone, Mr. Hayne?"
Il do, sir, exactly"
:. The colonel turned sharply to his
desk once more. The strained silence
continued a moment. Then ne faced hiA
4 officers.
Mr.. Hayne. will you remain few
moments? l wish to speak with you.
Gentlemen, that is all this morning."
And so the meeting adjourned.
While many of the cavalry officers
strolled into the neighboring club and
reading room it was noticed that their
comrades of the infantry lost no time az
intermediate points, but took the short,
, est road to the row of brown cottages
: known as the officers quarters. This
feeling of constraint that had settled
upon all was still apparent in the group
that entered the club room, and for 9
a moment no one spoke. There was
general settling into easy chairs and
r picking up of newspapers without refer
U ence to age or date. No one seemed to
? want to say anything, and yet every one
o felt it necessary to have some apparent
9 excuse for becoming absorbed in otheI
4 matters. This was so evident to Lieut..
y Blake that he speedily burst into laugh
q the first that had been heard-and
4 when two or three heads popped out
r from behind their printed screens TO in
n quire into the cause of his mirth that
"a light hearted gentleman was seen sprawl
O ing his long legs apart and gazing out Of
e the window after the groups of infantry
70 men.
v ''What do you see that's so intensely
70 funny?' growled one of the elders among
the dragons.
i Nothing, old mole nothing" said
h Blake, turning suddenly about. 1T looks
y too much like q funeral procession for
ii fun. What I'm chuckling at is the alb
surdity of our coming in here like SC
70 many mutes in weepers. Itsnone of our
III funeral"
10 'Strikes me the situation is damned
IA awkward" growled ''the mole" again.
n 'sHere's a fellow comes in who's cut by
no his regiment and has placed ours under
i lasting obligation before he gets inside
ne the post"
~ 'TWelI, does any man here know the
fl rights and wrongs Of the case, anyhow?
IT. said tall, bearded captain as he threw
NO aside the paper which he had not beer
reading, and rose iInpatiently to his feet
.1v alt seems to me from the little I've hearC
iii of Mr. Hayne and the little Tveseen, tina
nd there is broad variation between fact
Mt and appearances. He looks likea gentle
lo- man."
-d 'sNo one does know anything more O
- the matter than was known at the tint
bic of the court martial five years ago" an
- swered ''the mole" '.Of course you hav
rir heard all about that, and my experience
o5 is that when q body of officers and gen
Ill tlemen find, after due dehberation on tn
IL. evidence, that another has been guilty 0
-, conduct unbecomiug an officer and
~. gentleman, the chances are a hundred
10 one he has been doing something di
10. reputable, to say the least"
-, ''Then why wasn't he dismissed?
dueried q young lieutenant. ''The LAY
the says he must be"
Jew ''That's right, Dolly; pull your Ives an
ont Benet on 'em and show you know a
mo- about military law and courts martial
ous said the captain, crushingly. ITS OF
int thing for q court to sentence and anotht
ill for the president to approve. HayI
his was dismissed, 50 far as a court could
ucb it, but the president RENTED the who
we'd thing"
.,,h 'sThere was more to it than tina
no though, and you know it, Buxton" sa
~ Blake. 'Neither the department cor
do mander nor Gen. Sherman thought Il
evidence conclusive, and they said S
eral especially old Gray Fox. And you a
10 any of these fellows here now wheth
ring they believe Hayne was really guilt
hair and I'll bet you that eight out of ten W
funk at the question"
, or "And yetthey all cut him dead. Tha
and prinna facie evidenced of what they think
"Cut be bowed! By CAD, if any IN
hall asked me to testify on oath as to whe
luty the cut lay, I shouldsay he had cut the
,Dlv. Did you see how he ignored Foster a
or = Graham this morning."