The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-23


diers are posted well out to the south
and east to guard against surprise, and
the veteran Sergt. Clancy is put in COM
mand of the sentries. The captain gives
strict injunctions as to the importance
Of these duties, for he is far from easy
III HIS mind over the situation. The
Riflers, he knows, are over in the valley
of the Sweet Root. The steamer with
Rayner's men is tied up at the bank
some five miles below, around the bend.
The TIL are far off to the northward
across the Elk, as ordered, and must be
expecting on the morrow to make for
the old Indian ferry" opposite Battle
Butte. The main body OF the Sioux are
reported farther down stream, but he
feels it in his bones that there are num-
bers of them within signal, and he
wishes with all his heart the til were
here. Still, the general was sure he
would stir up war parties on the other
shore. Individually, he has had very
little luck in scouting during the sum-
mer, and he cannot help wishing he
were with the rest of the crowd instead
of here, train guarding.
Presently Mr.. Hayne appears, elastic
and debonair as though he had not been
working like horse all day. His voice
sounds so full of cheer and life that Hull
looks up smilingly.
"Wel!, youngster, you seem to love
this frontier life"
every bit of it, captain. was cut
out for the army, as father thought"
eve used to talk it over good deal
in the old days when I was stationed
around Washington" answers Hull.
Your father was the warmest friend
had in civil circles, and he made it very
pleasant for me- How little we thought
it would be my luck to have you for
| quartermaster!"
The fellows seemed struck all of a
heap in the Riflers at the idea of your APP
plying for me, captain. I was ready to
swear it was all on fathers account, and
would have told them SO only Rayner
happened to be the first man to tackle
me on the subject, and he was so crusty
about it I kept the whole thing to myself
rather than give him any satisfaction"
Larry, my boy, I'm no preacher, bun
l want to be the friend to you your
father was to me. You are full of en-
thusiasm and life and spirits, and you
love the army ways and have made
yourself very popular with the young
sters, but I'm afraid you are too careless
and independent where the seniors are
concerned. Rayner is a good soldier,
and you show him very scant respect,
I'm told"
"Well. he's such an interfering fellow.
They will all tell you I'm respectful
enough toto the captains fhe"-
''That's Just it. Lawrence. So long as
you like man your manner is what it
should be. What young soldier ought
to learn is to be courteous and respectful
to senior officers whetherIle likes then
or not 1t costs an effort sometimes
but it tells. You never know what
trouble you are laying up for yourself il
the army by bucking against men yor
don't like. They may not be in posi-
ton to resent it at the time, but the tim,
is mighty apt to come when they will be
and then you are helpless" ..o
why, Capt. Hull, I,don't see it tina
way at all. 1t seems to me that so lone
as an officer attends to his duty, minds
his own business, and behaves, like
gentleman. no one can harm him, es
pecially when all the good fellows of tn
regiment are his friends, as they ar
mine. l think, in the Rifiers.
"Ah, Hayne, it is q hard thing to teacl
youngster that-that there are mel
who find it very easy to make their ju
niors' lives burden to them, and with
out overstepping regulation. 1t il
harder yet to say that friends in tn
! army are good deal like friends out O
it-one only has to get into seriou
trouble to find how few they are
God grant you may never have to lear
9 it, my boy, as many another has had te
by sharp experience! Now we must &c
a good nights rest. You sleep like log
> > l see, and can only take cat maps. Con
q found this money! How wish coul
q get rid of it!'
$ 'tWhere do you keep it tonight"
4 eight here in my saddlebags unde
! my head. Nobody can touch them tina
| do not wake; and my revolver is her
under the blanket. Hold on! Let's tax
e a look and see if everything is all right.
@ He holds a little camp lantern over til
). bags, opens the flap, and peers in. ''Yes
h all serene. [ got big hunk of gree
sealing wax from the paymaster an
G sealed it all up in one package with til
8 memorandum list inside. It's all safe S
Il far, even to the hunk of sealing wa1
"a What is it, sergeant"
# A tall soldierly, dark eyed trooper al
" pears at the doorway of the little ten
y and raises his gauntleted hand in salut4
, His language, though couched in til
h phraseology Of the soldier, tells both
choice of words and in the information
10 every phrase that he is a man whose al
~ tecedents have been far different fro1
! those of the majority of the rank an
i file:
"Will the captain permit me to tai
II my horse and those of three or four mo-
men outside the corral? Sergt. Clanc
- says he has no authority to allow it. W
II have found patch of excellent gras
:, sir, and there is hardly any left inside.
+ will sleep by my picket pin, and one
q us will keep awake all the time, if tt
captain will permit"
II 'How far away is it, sergeant"
l. "Not seventy five yards, sir-close
70 the river bank east of us"
20 Very we'll. Send Sergt. Clancy her
II and FL give the necessary ORDERS
"a The soldier quietly salutes, and disa
I,an1.c In tho .oroti,nrinor darkness