The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-21

to hasten to Chicago on urgent person.
al affairs, got it and disappeared. A
young regimental quartermaster was
ordered in from Emory to take charge
| of shipments and sign invoices during
! Burleigh's temporary absence and tn;
only other officer whom Burleigh had
seen and talked with before his start
was the venerable post commander.
One after another the few cavalry
troops (companies) on duty at Emory
had been sent afield until now only
one was left, and three days after Bur-
leigh started there came a dispatch
from department headquarters direct
ing the sending of that one to Frayne
at once Capt. Brooks troop, owing
to the continued illness of it's com
mander, would be temporarily with
drawn and sent back to Emory to re-
place it.
Marshall Dean did not know wheth-
er to be glad or sorry. Soldier from
top to toe, he was keenly enjoying the
command of his troop. He gloried in
mountain scouting, and was in his ele-
ment when aStride a spirited horse.
Then, too, the air was throbbing with
rumors of Indian depredations along
the northward trails. and everything
pointed to a serious outbreak any mo-
ment, and when it came he longed to
be on hand to take his share and win
his name, for with such a trrop his
chances were better for honors and
distinctions than those of any young
! ster he knew. Therefore he longed to
keep afiield. On the other hand the
visit paid by Jessie's school friend,
little "Pappoose" Folsom, was to be
returned in kind. John Folsom had
begged and their mother had consent
! ed that after a week at home Jess
should accompany her beloved friend
on q visit to her far Western home.
They would be escorted as far as
Omaha, and there Folsom himself
would meet them. His handsome
house was ready, and, so said friends
who had been invited to the house
warming, particularly we'll stocked as
to larder and cellar There was just
were enabled to dilate that was not
entirely satisfactory to Folsom's
| friends, and that was the new pre-
siding goddess of the establishment.
What on earth does John Folsom
want of a housekeeper? asked the
helpmates of his friends at Fort EN-
ory, and i'll the busting, busy town.
why don't he marry again?" queried
those who would gladly have seen
some unprovided sister, niece or
daughter thus cozily disposed of. 1t
was years since Elinor's mothers
death, and yet John Folsom seemed
to mourn her as fondly as ever and
except in midwinter, barely month
went by in which he did not make
his pilgrimage to her ver-neglected
grave. Yet, despite his vigorous years
in saddle, sunshine or storm, and his
thorough love for outdoor life, Folsom,
now we'll over fifty, could no longer so
lightly bear the hard life of the field.
lie was amazed to see how his Sleep
less dash to head off Red Cloud and
his days and nights Of gallop back,
| had told upon him. Women at Fort
Emory who looked with approving
eyes on his rudy face and trim, erect
figure, all so eloquent of health, and
who possibly contemplated, too, his
solid bank account, and that fast
building house, the finest in Gate City,
had been telling him all winter long
he ought to have a companion-an
elder guide for Miss Elinor on her re-
turn; he ought to have some to pre-
side at his table; and honest John had
promptly answered: "Why. Nell will
do all that" which necessitated their
limiting that, although Miss Folsom
would We young lady in years. she
was only a child in experience, and
would be much the better for some one
who could take a mothers place. mo
one could do that said John with
sudden swimming of his eyes, and that
put sudden stop to their Screenings,
for the time at least, but only for the
time. Taking counsel together, and
thinking how lovely it would be now
if Mr.. Folsom would only see how
much there was in this unmarried
damsel, or that widowed dame, the
coterie at Emory again returned to
the subject, until John, in his perplex-
ity, got the idea that propriety de-
| manded that he should have a house
keeper against his daughters coming,
and then he did go and do in his mas
culine stupidity, just exactly what they
wouldn't have had him do for worlds
| invite q woman. of whom none of