Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-25

Erred. what did Maj. Kenyon mean
bv his reference TO Mr.. Hearn and some
story about him?" asked Mrs. Lane that
evening As the captain was locking up
after their guests had departed. Miss
Marshall. who was glancing over pho
tograph album. closed it and rose As
though 10 leave the parlOr.
No. don't go" said Captain Lane,
promptly. Il was sorry that Kenyon
made any reference TO the matter, but
since he did l want you both-indeed l
think Hearn told me because he wanted
YOU both-to know all about the affair.
lie had never mentioned il to me, nor TO
any one. I fancy. before. because there
was no need Ii was all settled some
time ago. but of course he felt sensitive
about it. He was green young lieu
tenant when he Joined here six years
ago. This jew Schonberg was clerk al
the suffers The officers dealt very
aree'y with him then, for town was not
IS accessible as il Is now.
The formal post trader was a jovial
Sjudiy sort OF fellaw, who was much
liked 0y everybody, but he left his books
and his business i'm the hands of SchOn-
berg have often heard how open
handed he was with his money. and hsw
officers. and men. too. never had 10 go
90 any banker or >calper If they needed
money for an emergency. Anything a
friend of his wanted was at his service.
Hearn began as a good many boys OF his
genial temperament are apt to do alta
big and expensive pOSt-gOt in debt, for
everybody wants TO give credit TO young
officers lust starting, and then bills
come I'm all In one SwOOp afterward.
old CHEEKY. rs they used call Brine,
saw Hearn's trouble, and insisted on
lending him money out of his own
aockct. Ii wasn't a store matter at all;
II wasn't entered on Hearn'S account.
lie paid 10 back in inStallmentS 10 the
old man himself, or was doing it when
bee received his promotion and had TO
make the long and expensive journey TO
Arizona.
Except cadets when first joining, Off
GER, are not paid advance mileage. They
must raise the money rs best they can,
and it is mighty hard on a young lieuten-
amt. old CHEEKY, of course, advanced
Hrarp another two hundred dollars. The
first was paid, all but fifty of it, and he
told the boy when he left that he had
taken big liking TO him, and that he
could lust return that at his conven-
fence: but Hearn never lost day after
Getting 10 his new post and obtaining
mis- mileage. but bought.a draft for two
hundred dollars and sent IL 20 the Ola
man at once, and said in his letter That
he would remit the balance of the ac-
count and his store bill just as soon as
po>siblc. Old CHEEKY was man who
never wrote letters, but Hearn got line
from his wife saying that Mr.. Bralne
had received his pleasant letter with It's
Enclosure. and sent his best wishes.
a few months afterward the old man
Suddenly died the widow moved 10
town: new trader came and took the
store. and when llearn sent his next re-
luittaucc of fifty dollars 10 the widow ne
was surprised ia the course or a Few
months afterward % receive what pur-
,,rtcd To be statement of his account
with the estate of Thomas Braine, deceaS-
..d-a store bill amounting 70 over
hundred dollars. and no less than hve
hundred dollars i'm borrowed money. lie
wrote Instantly TO friend at Fort Ryan
I'm see the widow and have things
,trairhtened out. He protested that his
store bin could cot bee more than forty
ar fifty dollars: that old Braine had lent
him two hundred dollars at one ume'
which he had paid back TO him all put
fftv. and two hundred more when ne
wont to Arizona. which he had Instant
~ ronald. 50 that the total amount OF
his indebtedness could not exceed one
hundred dollars. But the widow said
She didn't know anything about it.
.,Mr. Schonberg had kindly taken
charge of all her affairs, and he had the
books and everything and all the cor
reSpondence and knew al. about IL.
Hearn. of course, refused TO pay any
ching but the hundred dollars. Then
-bev threatened him with legal proceed
ingS. and next they impOrtuned him
through the war department, which,
lust as old Kenyon says, believed the
blackboard and called on Hearn for an
exclamation. Ii nearly drove the young
fellow mad. lie was proud ana Sehsl-
tive. He couldn't bear 70 think oil 'he
publicity and scandal. He had never
given Braiue any receipt FOR the money
obtained from him; never had asked any
for the money repaid. He was too non
orable 20 deny the fact of having Dor
rowed the money. yet had nothing 10
show. the old man being dead. for the
money that he had returned. hau
heard something Of his trouble, but was
ordered east on recruiting service Just
then. and began TO get into trouble oil
nv own. for il was there that | met TINS
voung woman" And the captain, WIN
eyes that belicd his words. turned fondiy
20 his wife. -,
..The next thing I heard of Hearn the