Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-19
WARNINGS PERIL.
By Capt. Chas. King, of the U. S. Army.
 Copyright by Lippincott.
VIII.

ing, the garrison hau come to the con clusion that those officers or men of Battery "X' who still believed him in nocent were idiots. So did the civil authorities; but those were days when the civil authorities of Louisiana com mandcd less respect from it's educated people than did even the military. 'fhe police force, like the state, were undergoing a process called recon struction, which might have been impressive in theory, but was ri diculous in practice. A reward had been offered by business associates of the deceased for the capture and conviction of the assassin. A distant relative of old Lascelles had come to take charge of the place until NJ. Phil ippe should arrive. The latter's address had been found among old Armand's papers, and dispatches, via Havana, had been sent to him, also letters. Pierre d'Hervilly had taken the weep ing widow and little Min Min to bonne maman's to stay. Alphonse and his woolly-pated mother, true to negro superstitions, had decamped. Nothing would induce them to remain under the roof where foul murder had been done. "De hahnts" was what they were Ol. Auu SO LIlC Olu WLlUo stead, though surrounded on every side by curiosity seekers and prying eyes, was practically deserted. Cram went about his duties with a heavy heart and light aid. Ferry and Pierce both commanded section snow, as Doyle re- mained in close arrest and "Pills the Less" in close attendance. Something was utterly wrong with the fellow. Mrs. Doyle had not again ventured to show her red nose within the limits of the "barX," as she called them, hint from Braxton having proved sufficient; but that she was ever scouting the pickets no one could doubt. Morn, noon and night she prowled about the neighborhood, employing the "byes," so she termed such stray sheep in army blue as a dhrop of Anatole's best would tempt, to carry scawling notes to Jim, one of which, falling with it's postman by the wayside and turned over by the guard to Capt. Cram for transmittal, was addressed to Mister Loot'nt James Doyle, Lite Bothery X, JaXun Bark, and brought the only laughter to his lips the big horse artilleryman had known for nearly a week. Her GUS tomary Mercury, Dawson, had vanished from sight, dropped, with many an- other and often better man, as de- serter.
 Over at Warnings abandoned quarters the shades were drawn and the green jalousies bolted. Pierce stole in each day to see that everything, even to the augmented heap of letters, was undis- turbed, and Ananias dropped in the court below and refused to be comfort ed. Cram had duly notified Waring's relatives, now living in New York, of his strange and sudden disappearance, but made no mention of the cloud of suspicion which had surrounded his nau~e. Meantime, some legal friends of tho family were overhauling the Lascelles papers, and dark-complex- | toned, thick-set, active little civilian was making frequent trips between the department headquarters and bar | racks. At the former he compared notes with Lieut.. Reynolds, and at the | latter with Braxton and Cram. The | last interview MT. Allerton had before leaving with his family for the north was with this same lively party, the de- tective who joined them that night at the St. Charles, and Allerton, being a man of much substance, had tapped his pocllctbooll significantly.
 "The difficulty just now is in having a talk with the widow" said this off cial to Cram and Reynolds, whom he had met by appointment on the Thurs day following the eventful Saturday of Braxton's "combined" review. "She Is too much prostrated. I've simply got to wait awhile, and meantime go | about this other affair. Is there no way in which you can see her?"
 Cram relapsed into a brown study. Reynolds was boring over the note written to Braxton and comparing it with one he held in his hand-an old one, and one that told an old, old story. "I know you'll say have no right to ask this,' it read, "but you're gentleman and I'm a friendless wom- an deserted by worthless husband. My own people are ruined by the war, but even if they had money they wouldn't send any to me, for offend. ed them all by marrying 8 Yankee ofh. cer. God knows I am punished enough
 for that. But I was so young and inno
 cent when he courted me. ought to | of left would of left him as soon as
 found out how good-for-nothing he
 really was, only was so much in love
 couldn't. was fastenated, I suppose
 Now I've sold everything, but if you'll only lend me fifty dollars I'll work my
 fingers to the bone until pay it. Fol
 the old home's sake, please do."
 "It's the same hand-the same wom
 an, Cram, beyond a doubt. She bleG Waring for the old home's sake the , first winter he was in the south. He
 told me all about it two years ago 1T
 Washington, when we heard of her tho
 second time, Now she's followed hin , over here, or got here first, tried tho
 same game probably, met with re fusal, and this anonymous note is hel
 revenge. The man she married was {
 crack-brained weakling who got int
 the army the flag end of the war, fel
 in love with her pretty face, married
 her, then they quarreled and he dranl F himself into a muddle-head She ral n him into debt; then he gambled ava.
 government funds, bolted, was caught
 and would have been tried and sent t . jail, but some powerful relative save