The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-01-03

called Mrs. Woods. tossing the brown
paper down the stairs. ''Shc wants io
know when you are coming up TO see
hcr?r
After a while" answered he. 81
must go 10 the storehOuse first" lie
fastened 90 his stock Of arms and muni-
tions NJ war. thinking little Of them Il
must DC owncd-thinlsing little of any
thing just now but Connie. Not vet
sixteen. an innocent, ignorant, garri-
son-brcd girl. yet so like her mother in
her own girlhood. so gentle. unscliish.
thoughtful for others; could IL be- that
all unsought she should have given her
girlish heart TO the bright-cycd. merry
young fellow who had 80 suddenly left
them. and that IL was known noted
by other? IL not. why should Rhett
have taken all the trouble to send that
message telling Of Thornton safety?
Sorrow, trial. trouble of nearly every
kind had come 10 him during the last
year or so. but this was something so
utterly unlocked for. What could he
do? What should he do?
At the atorchousc, the ordnance ser
gcant, aided by one or two semi.in-
validcd troopers. was packing cavalry
equipments 10 be sent 20 a distant COM
mand. Tho glad June sunshine was
pouring in at the open doorway. and
the mountain breeze was fresh and
bracing. The men were chatting in
low tones over their work. and the talk
was only of the robbery. Graves was
in town, in consultation with the civil
authorities. The local morning paper
had but two topics 10 discuss, the In
dian outbreak and the robbery. II had
but one theory: the Indians were the
malefactors in the first ease and the
soldiers in the second. That cowboys
or settlers. ranchmcn or road-agents.
could be the real culpritS was not for
an instant 10 be- believed. Two soldiers
closely answering the description given
by Mr.. Lacy, the paymaster's clerk,
had been in town for several hours the
previous day, patronizing sta blca. Sa-
looms and restaurants. and literally
supplied with money, had ridden away
a soon as details of the robbery were
being circulated about the streets, and
they were now lat largc'--that cx-
prcsSivc term which Is used by tho
press when it desires TO imply that the
party enjoying his constitutional
rights is probably fugitive from JUS.
ticc. The sheriff, with efficient
posses" was securing the country in
pursuit. Officials 1T the fort. profess
ing to doubt the evidence laid before
them. had refused To cooperate with
the civil authorities in securing their
arrest, and had insisted that the men
were merely returning on the rrail Of
Col. Winthrop's command. Morgan
had read many n scrCcd in similar
strain. II was what HE own men were
saying that aroused him to sudden in
tcrCSt.
WHO was that rcd-hcadcd chap wa
out here last night asking to know
where was Schramm's trunll?' inquired
Private Gtohcgan of his comradc.
oh, he's wan Of the shcriff's gang.
| miSrcmcmber his name. Sure the
quurtcrInastCr sergeant told him
Schramm carried his trunk, like the
elephants. OF the end 81 his nose. hut
nc said he know he'd left box on
trunk in somebody's care-NIrs. link
els, think or the wife of some Of the
sergcants. He was nosing around the
landresseS quarters half the evening"
Was nc? Did he get anything2'
lie did. He got some important in
formation. Mrs. Clancy tould him
she'd black his eye for him il he stuck
his rcd head inside the door, and while
she was entertaining the gentleman
Mrs. uinklc ran up TO the post with a
box, and when she came back the Teller
was talking about search warrant
It's little of Schramms they'd find at
ould llinkle's now. She's took IL up 10
the officers quarters. whatever it is"
And then Morgan remembered the
eager voice in his kitchen the night be- |
fore. and Lots announcement that il
was Mrs. HinlSel who begged 10 see
Constance, and a new light flashed !
across his mind, n new shadow fell !
athwart his path. What il the author |
tiles were now 10 ask him where |
SchraInm's effects were hidden? What /
IL they should demand the right 10 en-
anime them? Morgan was M longer |
simply Subaltern officer, he was the |
commander. pro tenn, of the big and !
important post of fort Ransom, and /
bound by every consideration 10 act in 1
conjunction with the civil officials in .
the enforcement of law and in the aid /.
Of civil process.
Eren as he was bordering over the I
matter, hor'emau appeared in the I
broad glare of the sunshine on the bare I,
open space IN front.
I'm looking for the post command /
err" said he and handed him n tcle- .
gram. Morgan mechanically unfoldcd .
il and read
10 the ShcrifT. Latimcr county.