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


with this affair, I'd like to hear?"
AT last somebody took him home
Mrs. Waldron, meantime, had arrived
and been admitted to Mrs. Hurley's
room. The doctor refused to go to Capt.
Rayner's, even when messenger came
from Mrs. Rayner herself. He referred
her to his assistant, DIR. Grimes. Hayne
had regained consciousness, but was
sorely shaken. He had been foored by
a blow from the butt of musket; but
the report that he was shot proved hap
PLY untrue. His right hand still lay
near the hilt of his light sword; there
was little question that he had raised his
weapon against superior officer, and
would have used it with telling effect.
Few people slept that night along Off
GERS row. Never had Warrener heard
of such excitement. Buxton knew not
what to do. He paced the floor in agony
of mind, for he well understood that
there was no Sinking the response
bility. From beginning to end he was
the cause of the whole catastrophe. He
had gone so far as to order his corporal
to fire, and he knew it could be proved
against him. Thank God, the perplexed
corporal had shot high, and the other
men, barring the one who had saved
Rayner from furious lunge of the lieu
tenants sword. had used their weapons
as gingerly and reluctantly as possible.
AT the very least, he knew, an investiga-
tion oDd faorful ccopdol ,,,,,ct ,o,,,, &c -
Night though it was, he sent for the act
ing adjutant and several of his brother
captains, and, setting refreshments be-
fore them, beSought their advice. He
was still commanding officer de jure, but
he had lost all stomach for its functions.
He would have been glad to send fo1
Blake and beg his pardon for submitting
to his insubordinate and abusive Ian.
guage, if that course could have stopped
inquiry; but he well knew that the whole
thing would be noised abroad in less than
no time.
At first he thought to give orders
against the telegraph operators sending
any messages concerning the matter; but
that would have been only temporary
hinderance: he could not control the in.
struments and operators in town, only
three miles away. He almost wished he
had been knocked down, shot or sta bbed
in the melee; but he had kept in the real
when the skirmish began, and Raynei
and the corporal were the sufferers
They had been knocked 'seDdwise'' by
Mr.. Hurley's practiced fists after Hayne
was struck down by the corporars mus
ket. 1t was the universal sentiment
among the officers of the til as they
scattered to their homes that Buxton had
''wound himself up this time, anyhow
and no one had any sympathy for him
not one. The very best light in which he
could tell the story only showed the af
fair as fragrant and inexcusable out
rage.
Capt. Rayner, too, was in fearful
plight He had simply obeyed orders
but all the old story of his persecution
of Hayne would now be revived; all men
would see in his participation in the af
fair only additional reason to adiudgt
him cruelty persistent in his hatred Of
the young officer, and, in view of the
utter ruthlessness and wrong of this as
sault, would be more than ever confident
of the falsity of his position in the orig
| lnal case. As he was slowly led ur
stairs to his room and his fearful wife
and silent sister-in-law bathed anC
cleansed his wound, he saw with fright
| full clearness how the crush of circum.
stances was now upon him and his gooG
name. Great heaven! how those words
Of Haynes five years before rang, throb
bed, burned, beat like trip hammers
through his whirling brain! 1t seemed
/ as though they followed him and hi.
fortunes like curse. He sat silent
stunned, awe stricken at the force of the
calamity that had befallen him.
How could he ever induce an office
and gentleman to believe that he wa!
no instigator in this matter?-that it was
all Bu1ton's doing, Buxton's low imagi
nation that had conceived the possibility
of such crime on hepart of Mr.. Hayne
and Buxton's laundering, bull headed
abuse of authority that had capped tht
fatal climax? 1t was some time before
his wife could get him to speak at all
She was Historically bemoaning the fat,
that had brought them into contact will
such people, and from time to time
giving vent to the comforting assertion
that never had there been cloud OF
their domestic or regimental sky unit
that wretch had been assigned to the
| Rifers. She knew from the hurried and
guarded explanations of DIR. Grimes and
one or two young officers who helped
Rayner home that the fracas had oc.
Cured at Mr.. Hayne's-that there had
been mistake for which her husband wa:
not responsible, but that Capt. Buxton
was entirely to blame But her husband!
ashen face told her a story of something
far deeper; she knew that now he wa
involved in fearful trouble, and, what
ever may have been her innermos
thoughts, it was the first and irresistibl,
impulse to throw all the blame upon hel
scapegoat.
Miss Travers, almost as pale and quit'
as silent as the captain, was busying her
self in helping her sister; but she coulc
with difficulty restrain her longing to bic
her be silent. She, too, had endeavorec
to learn from her escort on their hurried
homeward rush across the parade wha
the nature of the disturbance hae
been. She, too, had suggested Clancy
but the officer by her side set his teeti
as he replied that he wished it hae
been Clancy. She had heard, too, tn
message brought by cavalry trrmpete
from Mr.. Blake. He wanted Capt. Ra,
to come to Mr.. Haynes assoon as he has