The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-19

hurt his credit to appear as a Dor
rover He had even pledged his word
that the transaction should be kept
between themselves.
And then there had been a sctSe
with that drunken wretch Newhall.
What possible hold had he on Burleign
that he should be allowed to come reel
ing and storming into the office and
demanding money and lots of it-this,
too, in the presence of total strangers?
And Burleigh had actually paid him
then and there some hundreds of dol
lars, to the stupefaction of the fellow
who had come for a row. They got
him away somehow, glad to go, posi-
bly,, with his unexpected wealth, and
Burleigh had explained that that poor
devil, when he could be persuaded to
swear off, was one of the braVest and
most efficient officers in the service,
that he was we'll to do, only his money,
too, was tied up in mines; but what was
Of more account than anything else,
he had devotedly and at risk of his
own life from infection nursed his
brother office Burleigh through the aw-
full epidemic of yellow fever in New
Orleans in 81. He had saved Burleigh's
life, 80 how can L go back on him
now said he.
All this was the old trader revolving
in mind as he FASTENED to the depot,
all this and more. For two days Mar
shall Dean and co. troop had stood
ready for special service. Rumor had
it that the old general himself had de-
termined to take the field and was on
his way to Gate City. 1t was possibly
to escort his and his staff the troop was
ordered kept prepared to move at a
moments notice. On Burleigh's desk
was a batch of kilograms from depart
ment headquarters. Two came in dur
ing their long conference in the after
noon, and the quartermaster had low
cred his hand long enough from that
lurid welt on his sallow cheek to hur-
riedly write two or three in reply. One
FolOSm felt sure was sent in cipher.
Two days before, Burleigh had urged
him to protest as vehemently as he
could against the sending of any money
or any small detachment up the Big
Horn. ard pro tCSte he had strenuously.
Two days before, BurIeigh said it was
as bad as murder TO order a paymaster
or disbursing officer to the Hills with
anything less than a battalion to es-
cort him, and yet within four hours
after he was put in possession of nearly
all the paper currency in the local bank
a secret order was issued sending
Lieut.. Dean with ten picked men to
slip through the passes to the Platte,
away from lIle DGdlen IOdQ, anu up 10
10 p. m. Dean himself was kept in ig-
norance of his further destination or
the purpose of his going. Not until
1890 was Il sealed package placed in
his hands by the post Quartermaster,
who had himself received if from Maj.
Burleigh, ard then and there the young
officer was hidden by Col. Stevens, as
the medium of the department COM
nander. to ride with all haste commen-
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water above it's junction with the
Platte, to travel by night if need be and
hide by day if he could, to let no man
or woman know the purpose Of his go
ing or the destination of his journey,
but to land that package safe at War
rior Gap before the moon should wane
And all this Burleigh must have
known when he, John Folsom, shook
his hand at parting after tea that
evening, and then gone hopefully to
drive his girls to Emory to see his
soldier boy, and found him busy with
the sudden orders, received not ten
minutes before Their coming. Something
in Burleigh's almost tremulouS anxiety
to get that money in the morning, his ILL
disguised chargrin at Folsom's refusal,
something in the eagerness with which,
despite the furious denunciation of the
moment before, he jumped at Folsoms
offer to put up the needed money if he
would withhold the threatened charges
all came back to the veteran now and
had continued to keep him thinking
during the night. Could it be that Bur-
leigh stood in need of all this money to
cover other sums that he had misappli-
ed? Could it be that he had planned
this sudden sending of Dean on a des-
rerate mission in revenge that he could
not take officially? There were troops
at Frayne going forward in strong
farce within the week. There were
other officers within call, dozen Of