The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-30
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i1dNhc, anu WdiNeu Ou uOWu us row.
Nearly all the officers were strolling
away in groups of three or four. Hayne
walked past them all with quick, sol
dierly step and almost aggressive man.
ner, and was soon far ahead, all by him.
self. Finding it an improbable sub
ject, there had been little talk between
the two regiments as to what Mr..
Haynes status should be on his reap
pearance. Everybody heard that he had
somewhat rudely spurned the advances
of Ross and his companions. Indeed,
Ross had told the story with strong col
oring to more than half the denizens of
officers row.
Evidently he desired no further friend
ship or intercourse with his brother blue
straps, and only few of the cavalry
officers found his society attractive. He
played delightfully."-; he was well read;
but in general talk he was not entertain
ing. Altogether too sepulchral-or at
at least funeral" explained the cavalry.
"He never laughs, and rarely smiles,
and he's as glum as Quaker meeting"
was another complaint. So a social sue
cess was hardly to be predicted for Mr..
Hayne.
While he could not be invited where
just few infantry people were the other
guests, from big general gathering or
party he, of course, could not be omit
ted; but there he would have his cav
airy and medical friends to talk to, and
then there was Maj. Waldron. 1t was a
grievous pity that there should be such
an element of embarrassment, but it
couldn't be helped. AS the regimental
adJutant had said, Hayne himself was
the main obstacle to his restoration to
regimental friendship. No man who
piques himself on the belief that he is
about to do virtuous and praiseworthy
act will be apt to persevere when the
object of his benevolence treats him
with cold contempt. If Mr.. Hayne saw
fit To repudiate the civilities few Off
ceys essayed to extend to him, no others
would subject themselves to similar re-
bluffs; and if he could stand the status
quo, why, the regiment could; and
that, said the Rif1ers, was the end of the
Natter
But it was not the end, by good deal.
Some few of the ladies of the infantry,
actuated by Mrs. Rayner's vehement ex-
position of the case, had aligned them
selves on her side as against the post COM
mander, and by their general conduct
sought to convey to the colonel and to
the ladies who were present at the first
dinner given Mr.. Hayne thorough disap-
proval of their course. This put the
cavalry people on their mettle and led to
division in the garrison; and as Maj.
Waldron was, in Mrs. Rayner's eyes,
equally culpable with the colonel, it SC
resulted that two or three infantry house
holds, together with some unmarried
subalterns, were arrayed socially against
their own battalion commander as we'll as
against the grand panjandrum at post
headquarters. If it had not been for the
determined attitude of Mr.. Hayne him
self, the garrison might speedily have
been resolved into two parties-Hayne
and anti-Hayne sympathizers; but the
whole bearing of that young man was
fiercely repellent of sympathy; he would
have none of it. Haynes position,
said Maj. Waldron, sis practically this
he holds that no man who has borne him
self as he has during these five years
denied himself everything that he might
make up every cent that was lost, though
he was in nowise responsible for the los
guilty of the charges on which he wa
tried. From this he will not abate on,
jot OF title; and he refuses now to re
store to his friendship the men who re
, pudiated him in his years of trouble, ex
, cept on their profession of faith in hi
) entire innocence"
Now, this was something the cavalr,
could not do without some Impeachment
: of the evidence which was heaped VI
against the poor fellow at the time of TIN
+ trial, and it was something the infantr,
would not do, because thereby the,
would virtually pronounce one, at least
of their own officers to have repeated,
+ and persistently given false testimony
In the case of Waldron and the cavalry
however, it was possible for Hayne t
return their calls of courtesy, becaus
! they, having never "sent him to Coven
, try" received him precisely as the
would receive any other officer. Wit
, the Riflers it was different. Having
> once ''cut" him as though by unanimou
accord, and having taught the young OF
= ficers joining year after year to regar
him as criminal, they could be restores
to Mr.. Haynes friendship, as has beel
said before, only ION confession of error.
: Buxton and two or three of his STAN
|, called or left their cards on Mr.. Hayn
; because their colonel had SO done; bu
precisely as the ceremony was performed
just so was it returned.
Buxton was red with wrath over wha
he termed Haynes conceited and super
cilious manner when returning his cal
81 called upon him like gentleman, b
thunder, just to let him understand
wanted to help him out of the mire, an
told him if there was anything could d
for him that a gentleman could do, not t
hesitate about letting me know; an
when he came to my house today
damned if he didn't patronize mel
talked to me about the Plevna siege, an
wanted to discuss Gourko and the Ba
) kans or some other fool thing: what i
thunder have to do with campaigns i
Turkey?-and / thought he meant thos
niger soldiers the British have in Indi
-Goorkhas, know now--and 1 did te
him it was an awful blunder, that only
Russian would make, to take those Sepo
fellows and put 'em into winter cam