Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-10

swinging steadily southward. Long and toilsome has been the march; hot, dusty and parching the day. Halts have been few and far between. and every man, from the colonel down, is coated with n gray mask of powdered alkali, the contribution of n two hours tramp through Dead Mans canyon just before the sun went down. Now, however, they are climbing the range. The mor- row will bring them to the broad and beautiful valley of the Spirit Wolf, and there they must have news. Officers and men are footsore and weary, but no one begs for rest. Colonel Maynard, riding ahead on n sorry hack he picked up at the station two days long march behind them, is eager to reach the springs at Forest Glade before ordering bivouac for the night A week agone no one who saw him at Sablon would have thought the colonel fit for march like this, but he seems rejuvenate. His head is high, his eye as bright, his bearing as full of spirit as mans could possibly be at 50, and the whole regiment cheered him when he caught the column at Omaha X talk with Chester and Ar mitagc seemed to have made a new man
 
 ergy that inspires the entire command. Though they were farther away than many other troops ordered to the scene, tho fact that their station was on the railway, and that they could be sent by special trains to Omaha and thence to the west, enabled them to begin their rescue march ahead of all the other foot troops and behind only the powerful .,F k,F s.Y. to the scene the moment the authorities woke up tu the fact that it should have been sent in the first place. Old May nard would give his very ears to get to Thorntons corral ahead of them, but the cavalry has 36 hours start and four legs to two. Every moment he looks ahead cxpcctant of tidings from the front that shall tell him the --th were there and the remnant rescued Even then. hc knows, he and his long springficlds will be needed The cavalry can fight their way in to the succor of tho bcSiCgcd, but once there will be themselves surrounded and too few in numbers to begin aggressive move mcnts. He and his will indeed be wei l come rc-CnforcCmCnts, and so they trudgr ahead
 The moon Is up. and it is nearly 10 o'clock when. high up on the rolling divide, the springs are reached, and, | barely waiting to quench their thirst in | the cooling waters, the wearied men roll themselves in their blankets under the | giant trees. and guarded by few out | lying piCkets are sOon asleep. Most of the officers have sprawlcd around lit tie fire and arc burning their boot leather thcrcat. The colonel his adju- tant and the doctor are curlCd up under | q tent fly that serves by day as n wrap | for the rations and cooking kit they carry on pack mule. Two company communicable Alpha and Omega of tho 10, aS Major Sluat dubbed them the senior and junior ill rank, Chester and Armitagc by name have rolled themselves ill their blankets under an- other tent fly and are chatting in low tones before dropping off to sleep. They have been inscparablc on tho journey thus far. and the colonel has had two or three long talks with them, but who knows what the morrow may bring forth: There is still much to settle. One ] officer. he of the guard, l. still afoot and trudging about among the trees. 
 Ger, also alone, is sitting ill silence smoking pipe. It k Mir Jcrrold. Cleared though he k of tho charges originally brought against him ill the minds of his colonel and Captain Ches- | ter, he has lost caste with his fellows and with them. Only two ur three men have been made aware of the statement which acquitted him. but every one h.,N by Nina Beaubicn, and that in accept ing his release at her hands he had put her to cruel expense. Every man among his brother officers knows in somu way that he has been acquitted of having compromised Alice Renwick $ fair fame only by an alibi that core spondinGly harmed another. Tho fact now generally known-that they were betrothcd and that the engagement was openly announCcd-maden no difference.
 Without being able to analyEs his conduct, the regiment was satisfied that it had been selfish and Contemptiblc, and that was enough to warrant giving him the cold shoulder. He was quick to sec and take the hint and in bitter distress of mind to withdraw himseli from their Cumpaniuuship. He haC hoped and expected that his caScrncs. to go with them on the wild and sudder campaign would rCiuStatc him in theil good GracPs. but it failed utterly. An, man would seek that, was the verClic of the informal council held by the off cers. lie would have been a poltrooI if he nadn' [ sought to 20, but while II, isn { q poltroon he has done n contempt ible thing" And so it stood. Rollins
 had cut him dead, refused his hand auC denied him chance to explain. Tel
 him he cant explain. was the savag, reply Inc sent by the adjutant, who con sented to carry Jcrrold's message il order that he might have fair play
 He knows, without explanation, th, wrong he has done to more than one. won't have anything to do with him.
 Others avoided him and only coldl, spoke 10 him when speech was ncces sary. Chester treated him with marked aversion; the colonel would not look a him; only ArmituSc-his captain-haG I a decent word for him at any time. an' even he was stern and cold. The mos Cnvied and careless of the entire com : mand the AdoniS. the bean, the cracl shot, the graceful leader in all garrison Q gaycties, tho beautiful dancer, rider Q tennis player, the adored of So man, . sentimental women nt Sibley, poor Jer ( rold had found his level, and his prou T and sensitive though selfish heart wa r breaking.
 $ Sitting alone under the trees. he ha I taken sheet of paper from his pocke case and was writing by the light of tn 0 rising moon. One letter was short an , easily written, for, with T few words e ho had brought it to n close, then fold V ed and ill n bold and vigorous hand nd