The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-12

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self broke down.
Such was the feeling against him
among the men, such were the threats
which he could not but hear as he lay
in his barred cell, that he begged to be
allowed to see the commanding officer.
He was in fear for his life-poor devil!
and indeed nothing but the discipline so
derided of the newspapers saved him
from the tarring and feathering and rid
ing on a rail that the soldiers were wild
to give MIN. In piteous accents he i'm
plored Kenyon to have him sent away,
even to prison at Leavenworth. He
would plead guilty to desertion, guilty
TO theft, guilty to assault, guilty to any
thing, if the major would only get him
away from the terrible scowls and curses
of his erstwhile companions. Only if
the major would but believe him, he
really had never struck the corporal at
all; he had hurled the pepper in his eyes
and run. Brent, blinded and raging,
had rushed in pursuit, and had struck
his head against the sharp edge of the
brick pillar at the south end of the troop
barracks. Very possibly this was true;
for the cash was deep and jagged.
And Brent was convalescing rapidly,
but between the ladies of the Lane, Bro
die, Cross and Graves households stood
in danger of being killed with kindness.
There was just the least little spark of
jealousy among the women of the in
fantry because it was to a comparative
stranger that he should have revealed
his identity, and by her be brought to
the front at so supreme a moment. But
it was Miss Marshall who had been
greatly interested in his case from the
very night of his mishap. and she and
Mrs. Lane had been most kind and as
siduous in their attentions to him dur
ing his days of suffering.
When he heard of the charges against
Lieut.. Hearn, and of the outrageous fall
sifcation of the ,,dw, Schonberg, his de-
termination to conceal his name was at
last overcome, and to Miss Marshall and
to DIR. Ingersoll he told his story. His
fathers sudden and lamentable death at
the hands of the Apaches had left him
no alternative but to make over to his
sister every cent that had been boarded
up and set aside for his education-ev-
cry cent that was his by the old soldiers
willard then, leaving with her the lit
tie box that contained the captains pa
pers and letters, and quitting college he
went to New York and enlisted, choos-
ing the infantry service rather than the
cavalry, because his fathers old friends
and associates were mainly in the latter,
and though he had seen none of them
since his boyhood days, he thought rec
ognition not impossible, and he deter
mined to make his own way and owe
nothing to any man.
"Tm glad he came to u.s." said old
Kenyon. I'D do pretty much anything
to see him in any other profession, but
as he is bound to be a soldier I'll do al
1 can to place candidate alongside hi;
name on our muster roll, and then il
would be just my luck to find him com
missioned in the cavalry"
But if there was excitement at Ryan
just fancy the feelings of the officers
and men in the Eleventh, now 200 mile:
away in the Indian Territory, when thu
letters came detailing the events of thu
last day of that court martial-Schon
berg's exposure, Brents unwilling
Welsh's disgrace, Hearn's undoubtei
acquittal, Lawler put to confusion an(
flight, and Georgia Marshall the heroin'
of the whole thing!
GA Daniel come to judgment; ay,
Daniel" quoth Martin, as Lane reat
aloud Mabel's enthusiastic description o
what she termed the ''trial scene" eth
whole regiment sends heartfelt congrat
ulations to Hearn and love to Portia,
was the telegram that came lashin!
back to Mrs. Lane. Morris lost no tim
in debating diplomatic message to hi
absent subaltern, expressive of his desir
to welcome him back to duty after S
complete vindication. But Morris fel
very i'll at ease, and was not surprise
that no answer was vouchsafed. He re
tired to his tent, and was not seen fo
some hours after learning of Brent
identity.
Meantime, just when one would sur
pose that all was plain sailing, balm
breezes, sun kissed wavelets, ETC., jus
when nothing should have stood in th
way of Mr.. Hearn's rejoicing with all hi
heart, and just when the course of hi
true love ought to have been smooth an
sweet, the very impof perversity SCENE
to have suddenly developed in Georgi
Marsha1l's breast, and she who had don
so much to clear his name of 1.-THE CLOUD
that lowered over" it, and had for tw
weeks been the young soldiers most va
ued friend and ally, now most unaccoun
ably held aloof and fairly Stunned his S,
ciety. She met him only in crowd. SE
simply would not meet him alone. On OF
pretext or another she avoided him, an
poor Hearn. wounded, utterly unable
account for this sudden change, utterl
incapable of fathoming woman's whin
was now plunged in the depths of di
tress exceeding that from which he ha
Just emerged. She had rescued hi
from the tolls only to plunge him mi
worse ENHANCEMENT.
1t was the fourth day after the a,
iournment of the court when Maj. Kel
yon came to Mr.. Hearn's rooms with
telegram just received from divisic
headquarters, and found that young ge
tleman dejectedly reading a long lett
in the handwriting of Judge Hearn, b
father. Kenyon had grown to know
well. Released from arrest, lad! TIL
means you can go and join the regimen
as soon as you like. What does II
Judge say now"
''Read that page" was the answer,
: Hearn placed the letter in the major
hand. And with knitted brows KenvC