The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-04-07
Synopsis Of Chapters Published.

CHAPTER l. = Lieutenant Loring of
the regular army, having been Tilted by
Geraldine Allyn during his cadet days
at West Point. is ordered to Arizona.
Ii and III.-Lieutenant Blake arrests
a deserter, Higgins, whom a Mexican
girl, Pancha. endeavors to protect. Nv
Captain Nevins, appointed to the
regular army from civil life, a gambler
and embezzler of government funds, is
tried by court martial. He makes a
confession, stating that he was always
He asks Lieutenant Loring, judge adj
vocate of the court, to carry his watch
and some jewels to his wife, stating
that LOring is acquainted with her
sister, Miss Geraldine Allyn. V.-Lor-
ing accepts the trust, putting the jew
els in an envelope and placing the
watch and jewels in safe. VI.-Nev
l ms sends for Loring. who does not
respond, whereupon Nevins demands
the return of the Jewels. He is inform
ed that they have been sent. VII
Captain Nevins leaves the garrison for
parts unknown. VIlI.-Loring and
Blake. with all escort, are making for
San Francisco with the jewels i'm
charge when Blake is lured from Lor-
ing by a Mexican girl, Pancha. and
l tuCCto UWO 0IluSOos WIN manu- ulli al
order to furnish men from his escort to
conduct Colonels Vance and Turnbull
to Tucson and an order for Blake and
Loring to go to the Mexican capital on
court martial duty. Blake's escort is
thus reduced. The next nieht Blake is
lured away again by Pancha, who in
forms him that the stage near by is to
be attacked. Joining his men, he
dashes away, leaving Loring, who is
robbed of the watch and Jewels. Lor-
ing. who is severely Injured, is ordered
by his physician to rest and a sea voy-
age. He takes steamer for San Fran
CISCO Pancha is sent on the same
steamer to school. x and XI.-Loring
learns that Escalante, Pancha's uncle,
has deposited a package with the purser
containing the missing jewels. He had
Uniformed Geraldine of their loss and
sent her and her sister. Mrs. Nevins. a
Icheck. XII and XIII.-Pancha con-
vinces Loring that she is innocent. The
ship is wrecked, the officers are craven,
and Loring preserves order, thus get
ting the passengers into the boats
IXIV.-They are taken on board a
coaster to San Francisco. Lnripg is &C.
cused of having secured the package
deposited with the purser by Escalaute
and learns that Geraldine ALLYN is his
accuser. XIV. and XVI.-Loring is or
dered to duty. and Nevins is dismissed
from the service, witha years imprison-
ment. Loring is detained bv his com
handing officer. He appeals to the sec
Rotary of war, wherenpon he is placed
under arrest by his commander XVII
r. ancha appears and gives inform 4
tion which puts new aspect ON affairs
Loring is ordered by the secretary ot
| IN, TO l,fp
XIX; Xxx and XXI.-He meets his Old
love, Graldina ALVIN. and scorns her
CHAPTER XXI.
The day of perturbation had been
succeeded by a night Of worry at depart
ment headquarters. Dispatches full OF
grave import were coming in from Gate
City and Cheyenne. Old John Folsom,
long time a trader among the Sioux and
known and trusted by the whole tribe,
had given warning weeks before that
serious consequences would attend the
effort to build another post along the
Big Horn Red Cloud and his hosts OF
warriors had sworn to sweep it from
the face of the earth and every man OF
it's garrison with it,. All this had been
reported by the general to his superiors
at Washington, and all this had been
derided by the Indian bureau.
Against the Judgment, against the
t counsel of the department. commander,
the work went on. A large force of la
borers hired by Major Burleigh at Gate
City early in the spring had been sen,
to Warrior Gap, under strong escort.
and the unseasoned timber and fresh
cut logs were being rapidly dovetaileG
and mortise !. and long wagon trains
!, laden with stores and supplies, pnr,
chased by Major Burleigh's agents
were pushing out across the Platte.
Indians. indeed!' said that expert
J. enced officer disdainfully. "They dono
presume to interfere!'
And long since the whisper had beer
. going the rounds that Major Burleigh''
l. interest in the construction Of that new
! post, involving an expense Of some hun
l. dreds of thousands of dollars, was some
thing more than official. In vain Johl
!. Folsom and veteran officers of the fight
/ ing force had pointed out that Indian.
i. never do interfere when they see huge
trains Of provisions and supplies coming
!. just where they want them. ORDER
were orders. and the building went on
John Folsom said that any day the new
might come that Red Cloud and hi.
braves had massacred every man ant
carried off every woman in the new
cantonment. Wives and children were
there, secure, as they believed, behint
!. the stout hearts and far and fast shoot
l. ing new breechloaders, trustful. too
of the Indians whom they had often fec
and welcomed at their doors in the lar
ger and less exposed garrison.
u "Two of our companies can stand of
9 a thousand Sioux," said one gallant
= officer, who based his confident reporl
y on the fact that with so of the new
breechloaders. behind log breastworls
' he had whipped horde of mountain
. braves, armed only with lance and bow
Y and old 'smoothbore or SQUIRE
: rifles.