Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-12-31

quarter LOring expected to get an escort,
Blake being away at the Hassayampa
and no other cavalry being within so
miles, and Gleason felt resentful.
though he deity hid the fact, because
the engineer ignored the question until
it had been thrice repeated, and then he
said, somewhat tartly, tThat is my af-
fair, Mr.. Gleason"
Everybody thought that Loring was
decidedly unsociable, and some went SO
far as to call him superciIious and
naughty.
"Too blanked big 60 mingle with
men who fought all through the war
while he was schoolboy at the Point "
said Gleason, who had never seen a
skirmish.
This latter gentleman took it much
amiss that Loring had won the shoulder
straps OF a first lieutenant the day he
first donned his uniform (many vacan
cies then existing in the corps of engi-
neers), while Gleason and others with
what he called war records were still
second lieutenants. Officers of the cali
Der of Turn bulI and Starke saw much
to respect in the grave, silent, thought
full young officer, but the juniors-the
captains and observation-disclosures they
had marked the ease and ability with
which Loring handled what was prob
ably his first case as judge advocate,
nevertheless agreed that he was ''offish'
toward the general run of ''the line, .
held himself aloOf as though he cOnsid-
cred himself Of superior clay, didn't
drink, smoke, swear or play cards and
was therefore destitute of most elements
Of soldier companionship as then and
there defined. 1t was resented, too, by
almost everybody that Loring would
not say when and how he expected to
leave Camp Cooke He had come on
Sancho's famous roam, but had returned
that animal by special courier without
delay.
Starke and Turnbull were informed,
but at LOring's request saw fit to hold
their tongues. No one should know, he
had said to them, if he was to be re-
sponsibIe for those valua bles It might
leak out, and the veteran officers saw
the point. The juniors could not we'll
ask them (the veterans), but they could
and did ask Loring and held it up
against him in days to come that he de-
clined to be confidential
There was man at Cooke who could
have told them Loring showed wisdom
in his observance of caution, and that
man was Nevins, who had been sent for
by the commanding officer the morning
after the adjournment of the court and
subjected to questioning and lecture
that nobody else heard, but that every
body speedily knew must have been Sc
we're, because Nevins, lately SO meek
and lachrymOse, was seen to go to his
tent flushed with rage, and then from
within those canvas walls his voice was
heard uplifted in blasphemy and execra-
ton. Nor did he take advantage of
garrison limits the rest of that day, nor
once again that day appear outside.
At so great distance from civilian
tion trifies prove of absorbing interest
and callers came to see what they
could do for him. and learn for them
selves, and Nevins' face was black as
storm and his language punctuated
with profanity. He raved bout tyranny
and oppression, but vOuchsafed no in
telligible explanation of what he con-
fessed to be the commanding officers
latest order-that he was remanded to
for the benefit of the lay reader that
when an officer is accused of a crime or
even of a misdemeanor he is placed in
arrest, which means that he is suspend
ed for the time being from the exercise
Of command, must not wear a sword
and must confine himself to certain
limits-to his tent or quarters if in
close arrest, as for one week the officer
generally is, and to the limits of the
parade or garrison if allowed out for
exercise.
No sentry is posted, for an officer is
supposed to be on honor to observe the
prescribed restrictions, and only when
he breaks his arrest by visiting the
quarters of some brother officer or by
going outside of camp is he in danger
of other humiliation. To none of his
few visitors did Nevins reveal the fact
that on the previous night, if not be-
fore, he had broken his arrest and gone
far out on the mesa, back of the post; |
that he had been detected, by whom he
knew not, reported to the commanding /
officer and by him severely reprimanded |
and threatened with close confinement i
under guard, as when first brought back !
to the post, if he again ventured beyond
the restricted limits now assigned him.
II have twice sent to ask that Mr..
Loring should come to see me, - rallied |
Nevins. 81 have important matters
papers and messages from my wife
and ne holds aloof By God, Gleason,
you tell him for me that if he can't |
treat me decently and come to see me
before tattoo this night, demand that
he hand back those diamonds and things |
do you understand"
And that message Mr.. Gleason, who |