The Advocate and news., 1898-11-02
lsSe,ST J,s'LPPiheoTT COMPANY

Olouded, for Harry Winn was "his
Aunt Kitty all over" said many man
who knew them both. Their name was
impecuniosity That Mrs. Winn could
tell much about the coming captain lot
ters from ether regiments informed
more than one bright woman at Worth,
but that the young matron would tell
next to nothing, more than one woman,
bright or laundering, discovered on in
quiry. Only one officer now at the post
had ever served with Barclay, and that
was Brooks, who became tongue tied so
soon as it was settled beyond peradven-
ture that Captain Galbraith Barclay
from the unassigned list had been gazet-
ted to the Twelfth cavalry, Troop cd, 4"
vice Lawrence, honorably discharged,
But Brooks had letters, so had Frazier,
from old officers who had served with
the transferred man. Some Of these let
ters referred to him in terms of admira-
tion, while another spoke Of him un-
hesitatingly as more kinds Of id
fool" than the writer had ever met.
Verify, various men have various minds.
Presently, however, there came q
man who could tell lots about Barclay,
whether he knew anything or not and
that was one Of the new transfers,
Lieutenant Hodge by title and name.
Hodge said he had served with the
Thirtieth along the Union Pacific and
had met Barclay often. In his original
regiment Mr.. Hodge had been regarded
as very mOnotonous sort Of man, q
fellow who bored his hearers to death,
and the contrast between his reception
in social circles in the regiment he had
left and that accorded him here at
Worth, so soon as it was learned that he
knew Barclay, inspired Mr.. Hodge to
say that these people were worth know.
ing, they had some life and intelligence
about them. The gang he had left in
Wyoming were a stupid lot Of owls by
comparison. For week Hodge was in.
vited to dinner by family after family,
and people dropped in Co spend the
evening where he happened to be, for
Hodge held the floor and talked for
hours about Barclay, and what he had
to tell was interesting indeed, so much
SO, said Brooks, that some of it was
probably preposterous lie To begin
with, said Hodge. Captain Barclay was
rich, very rich, fabulously rich per-
haps, nobody knew how rich, and no.
body would have known he was rich at
all judging from the simplicity and
strict economy OF his life. In fact, it
was this simplicity and strict economy
that had given rise to the belief that
existed for year or two after he join.
cd the Thirtieth that he was hampered
either with debts or with dependent rel
atiyes. Relatives they knew he had, be-
cause sisters sent their boys to visit him
at Sanders, and he took them hunting,
fishing, etc. From these ingenious neph-
ews the ladies learned Of others, neph.
ews, nieces, sisters, cousins, aunts,
who wrote long letters to Uncle Gal,
ana the mall orderly said he left more
letters at Captain Barclays quarters
than at anybody else's
So Fort Sanders dropped the theory
OF debts and adopted that of depend
ents, and that held good for the first
year of his service with them. He had
joined from the volunteers, where he
had risen to the grade of major He
was "pious," said Hodges--wouldn't
drink, smoke chew, play cards or
swear-thought they ought to have
services on Sunday. He left the roister-
ing bachelors mess soon after reach
ing the post and had ever since kept
house, his cook and housemaid being
one old darky whom he had "acoumu-
lated in the south during the war--a
darky who had been we'll taught in the
household of his old master, and who
became extravagantly attached to the