The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-16

ing officer one day, sober, soldierlv, and
trinity dressed, and Capt. Rayner ex-
pressed his desire to have him enlisted
for his company; and it was done. Mrs.
Clancy was accorded the quarters and
rations of laundress, as was then the
custom, and for time-a very short
time-Clancy seemed on the road to pro-
motion to his old grade. The enemy
tripped him, aided by the seedlings and
abuse of his wife, and he never rallied.
Some work was found for him around
the quartermaster's shops which saved
him from guard duty or the guard
house. The infantry-officers and nep
seemed to feel for the poor, broken
down old fellow, and to lay much of his
woe to the door of his wife, There was
charity for his faults and sympathy for
his sorrows, but at last it had come to
this. He was lying, sorely injured, in
the hospital, and there were times when
he was apparently delirious.
AT such times, said Mrs. Clancy, she
alone could manage him; and she urged
that no other nurse could do more than
excite or irritate him. To the unspeaka-
bic grief of little Kate she, too, was
driven from the sufferers bedside and
forbidden to come into the room except
when her mother gave permission.
Clancy had originally been carried into
the general ward with the other patients,
but the hospital steward two days after
wards told the surgeon that the patient
moaned and cried so at night that the
other sick men could not sleep. and Of
fered to give up little room in his own
part of the building. The burly doctor
looked surprised at this concession on
the part of the steward, who was man
tenacious of every perquisite and one
who had made much complaint about
the crowded condition of the hospital
wards and small rooms ever since the
frozen soldiers had come in All the
same the doctor asked for no explana-
ton, but gladly availed himself of the
stewards offer. Clancy was moved to
this little room adjoining the stewards
quarters forthwith, and Mrs. Clancy was
satisfied.
Another thing had happened to excite
remark and good deal of it. Nothing
short of eternal damnation was Mrs.
Clancy's frantic sentence on the head of
her unlucky spouse the night of the fire,
when she was the central figure of the
picture, and when hundreds of witnesses
to her Wis were grouped around.
Corrac,,Op1ipcI,- lo1 che collaJ DOWN
the blessings of the Holy Virgin and all
the saints upon the man who rescued
and returned to her that precious packet
of money. Everybody heard her, and it
was out of the question for her to re-
tract. Nevertheless, from within an
hospital not another word Of the kind
escaped her lips. She was all patience
and pity with the injured man, and she
Stunned all allusion to his preserver and
her benefactor. The surgeon had been
called away, after doing all in his,power
needed elsewhere-and only two or three
soldiers and hospital nurse still re-
manned by his bedside, where Mrs.
Clancy and little Kate We're drying their
tears and receiving consolation from the
stewards wife. The doctor had men,
toned name as he went away, and it
was seen that Clancy was striving to ask
question. Sergt. Nolan bent down:
Lie quiet, Clancy, me boy; you must
be quiet, or you'll move the bandages."
"Who did he say was burned? Who
was he going to see?' gasped the suf
ferer.
1.-The new lieutenant, Clancy-him
that pulled ye out. He's good one, and
it's Mrs. Clancy that'll tell ye the same"
"Tell him WHAT" said she, turning
about in sudden interest.
about the lieutenant's pulling him
out of the fire and saving your money
Indeed yes! The blessing of all the
saints be upon his beautiful head,
and"-
"But who was it? What was his name,
l say?" vehemently interrupted Clancy,
half raising himself upon his elbow, and
groaning with the effort. "What was
his name? | didn't see him."
''Lieut. Hayne, man."
"Oh, my Godf' gasped Clancy, and
fell back as though struck a sudden blow.
She sprang to his side. Its faint he
is. Don't answer his questions, ser
geant! He's beside himselfl Oh, will We
never stop talking to him and lave him
in pace? Go away, all of yes-go away,
l say, or yen dhrive him crazy wild
yer Be quiet, Mike! don't We spake
agin." And she laid broad, red hand
upon his face. He only groaned again
and threw his one unbandaged arm
across his darkened eyes, as though to
hide from sight of all.
From that time on she made no men,
ton of the name that so strangely ex-
cited her stricken husband, but the
watchers in the hospital the next night
declared that in his rawlings Clancy kept
calling for Lieut.. Hayne.
STANDARDS battalion of the cavalry
came marching into the post two days
after the fire, and created diversion in
the garrison talk, which for one long day
had been all of that dramatic incident
and its attendant circumstances. In social
circles, among the officers and ladies, the
main topic was the conduct of Mr..
Hayne and the injuries he had sustained
as a consequence of his gallant rescue.
Among the enlisted men and the deni-
zens of Sudsville the talk was principal
ly of the revelation of Mrs. Clancys
hoard of greenbacks. But in both circles
singular story was just beginning to
creep around, and it was to the effect
that Clancy had cried aloud and tainted
dead away and that Mrs. Clancy had