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

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She seized q ,orap and stepped to the door
tcdy
Mr.. Hayne was up and around again.
The springtime was coming, and the
prairie roads were good and dry, and
the doctor had told him he must live in
the open air awhile and ride and walk
md drive. He stood in no want of
mounts" for three or four of his cav
airy friends were ready to lend him
saddle horse any day. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hurley, after making many pleasant ac-
quaintances, had gone on to Denver,
and Capt. Buxton was congratulating
himself that he, at least, had not run
foul of the engineers powerful fists
Buxton was not in arrest, for the case
had proved singular poser" 1t oc-
CURED during the temporary absence
of the colonel; he could not well place
the captain under arrest for things he
had done when acting as post comman-
der. In obedience to his orders from
department headquarters, he made his
report of the affair, and indicated that
Capt. Buxton's conduct had been mex
cusable. Rayner had done nothing but,
as was proved, reluctantly obey the cap
tains orders, so he could not be tried.
Hayne, who had committed one of the
most serious crimes in the military cata-
logue-that of drawing and raising a
weapon against an officer who was in
discharge Of his duty Rayner), had the
sympathy of the whole command, and
nobody would prefer charges against
him. The general decided to have the
report go up to division headquarters,
and thence it went with its varied COM
ments and Endorsements to Washington;
and now a court of inquiry was talked
of. Meantime poor bewildered Buxton
was let severely alone. What made him
utterly miserable was the fact that in
his own regiment, the til, nobody
spoke OF it except as something that
everybody knew was sure to happen the
moment he got in command. If it had
MT been that 'twould have been something
else. The only certainty was that Bux-
Won WOulQ never 1OSS u C1dIlCe OIL MAKING
an ass of himself.
Instead of being furious with him, the
whole regiment-officers and men-sim-
ply ridiculed and laughed at him. He
had talked of preferring charges against
Blake for INSTRUMENTATION, and asked the
adjutant what he thought of it. 1t was
the first time he had spoken,t to the adju-
tant for weeks, and the adjutant rushed
out of the office to tell the crowd to come
/ in and ''hear Buxton's latest" 1t began
to look as though nothing serious would
ever come of the affair, until Rayner re-
appeared and people saw how very i'll he
was. DR.. Pease had been consulted
and it was settled that he as well as his
wife must go away for several months
and have complete rest and change. II
was decided that they would leave by
the LIST of May. All this Mr.. Hayne
heard through his kind friend, Mrs
| Waldron.
One day when he first began to sit up
and before he had been out at all, she
came and sat with him in his sunshiny
parlor. There had been silence for q
moment as she looked around upon the
few pictures and upon that baroness and
GOODNESS which, do what he will, no man
can eradicate from his abiding place I'M
til he calls in the deft and dainty hand OF
woman.
81 shall be so glad when you have 6
wife, Mr.. Hayner' was her quiet com
ment.
80 shall 1, Mrs. Waldron," was tn,
response.
''And isn't it high time we were begin
ming to hear of choice? Forgive my
intrusiveness, but that was the very mat
ter of which the major and I were ta,h
ing as he brought me over"
''There is something to be done first
Mrs. Waldron," he answered. 81 canno
offer any woman clouded name. 1t
not enough that people should begin t
believe that | was innocent and my pei
secutors utterly in error, if not perjured
Unjust be able to show who was the rea
culprit, and that is not easy. The docto
and thought we saw way not lon
dSo, DG0 ~ pIONcu Inclusive. AHu III
sighed deeply. 81 had expected to Sc
the major about it the very day he &C
back from the court; but we have had n
chance to talk"
Mr.. Hayne," she said, impulsively
''a woman's intuition is not always g
fault. Tell me if you believe that an
one on the post has any inkling of til
truth. lave reason for asking"
81 did think it possible, Mrs. Waldorf
cannot be certain now; and it's too lat,
anyway"
''How, too late? What's too late?"
He paused a moment, deeper shade
than usual on his face; then he lifted h
head and looked fairly at her.
II should not have said that, Mr.
Waldron. 1t can never be too late. BIZ
what mean is that-just now spoke {
offering no woman g clouded nam
Even if it were unclouded, could Dc
offer it where I would"
Because you have heard of the Ell
gagement? was the quick, eager que
ton. There was no instant of doubt
the woman as to where the offerin
would be made. if it only could