Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-22
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..1s shouldn't like the job of clearing
 away the gang of Indians that might
 seize that ridge" said Dean, when later
 asked by the engineer what he, th ought
 of it, and Dean had twice by that lime been called upon to help hustle" In dians out of threatening positions, and knew, whereof he spoke.
 q shouldn't worry over things you're never likely to have to do,'' said
 the quarterrnaster, with sarcastic em- phasis, and he was a man who never yet had had to face Q foeman in the field, and Dean said nothing more, but
 felt right well he had no friend in Maj. Burleigh. ....
 They left the infantry there to guard
 the site and protect the gang of wood choppers set to work at once, then turned their faces homeward. They had spent four days and nights at, the
 Gap, and the more the youngster saw of the round .quartermaster, the, less he cared to cultivate him. A portly, heavily built man was he, some 40 years of age, widower, whose .chil- dren were at their mothers old home in the far east, a business map with
 keen eye for. opportunities and in vestments, a fellow who was sreputed to have stock in a dozen mines and
 kindred enterprises. a knowing hand who drove fast horses and. oswned quite
 a stable, a aharp hand who, played 8 thriving game of poker and had no compunctioas as to winning. Officers at Emory were fighting shy of him.
 He played tco big a game for their c1no11 and rnalSatS and the
 with whom he took his pleasure were
 big contractors or well-know1I sports
 and gamblers. who in those days thronged the frontier towns and most
 men did them homage. But on this
 trip Burleigh had no big gamblers along and missed his evening game, and. once arrived at camp along the EQrk. he had ..sroped in'' some of the infantry officers, but Brooks and the engineer declined to play, and so had Dean from the very start.
 All true cayalrynien ought to be able to take a hand at poker" sneered Barleigh, at the first nights camp, for here was pigeon really worth the plucking, thought he. Deans, life in the field had been so simple and ineS- pensive that he had saved much of his slender pay; but; what Burleigh did not know, he had sent much of it home to mother and Jess. ., E | ">'I know several men who would
 have been the better for leaving it aflbne,' responded Dean, very quietly i They rubbed each other the wrong
 way from the very start, and this was | bad for the boy, for in those days, 1 when army morals were less looked
 after than they are now, men of Bur-
 leigh'sa stamp, with the means to en-
 tertain and the station to enable them to do it, had often the ear of officers 1 from headquarters and more things l were told at'suchtimes togenerals and 1 colonels about their young men than the victims ever suspected Burleigh I Iwtls a man of position and influence and knew it. Dean wassa Gyenngste1 1 without either, and did not realize it i He had made an enemy of the auarter. 1 master ca the trip and could not but i know. it. Yet, conscious that he had
 said nothing that was wrong, he.fel1 I no disqrliet. ~ '.' 7.. .-'-
 And now, homeward bound, he was 1 jogging t'contentedly along at the