Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-01

interesting looking to the girls. and Lane
was not too sorry to hear from his lips that
things were not all straight about Holt.
He ought to be: he had had exceptional ad-
vantages. but the feeling was growing (Mal-
10y spoke of 1t with deep reluctance) that
tnat Holts loyalty was not what II shoulo
be. officers knew and men were beginning
to know that Holt was in constant CORE
spondence with rampant rebels. Everybody
seemed to have heard by this time that DR..
Holt was one of Governor Magofin's most
trusted and truculent advisers. That while
he had opposed secession at first, 1t was be-
cause he believed southern rights could be
obtained and enforced without It, He be-
lteved In the heayen-born right OF the
southern gentlemen to rule the land. 1t
was known that the doctor and Henry Holt
had been to Tennessee and even farther
south. had had conferences with Albert
Sidney Johnston, the fiery Texan. who was
organizing the southern forces in the west.
1t was declared that a commission as sur
geon general had been rendered the doctor.
and a staff position offered to his eldest
son.
1t was fully believed in the regiment. said
Malloy, that captaincy awaited Norman
in the confederate service, and that he
would have accepted had his state gone
with the rest, as it might do any day. lie
was an unsafe man to trust with the sword
Of authority. All this began to be whis-
pered, If not noised abroad, in Cincinnati at
the very moment the old regiment was
nearing its home station to reOrganize. All
this was limited about the homestead of the
Lanes, who were loyal to the core, and
there had already been a Violent rupture
between the now senior member and the
hot-headed client at Belleview. Lane. at
least, knew well that the father and the
elder son were every day turning more and
more to the side of open defiance to tie
general government, and when, early in
June, he had been summoned to Bellevfew
to attend the last solemn rites as they la d
to rest the form of his old partner and
benefactor, there had been stormy con-
troversy, in which, among other things,
Lane told that Norman Holt would
stand exiled and disinherited if he did not
quit the service of the Lincoln govern
ment' and return to his home and kindred.
No wonder the lonely soldiers face had
grown sad and sallow. He had indeed bet n
in correspondence with the enemy, who had
exhausted every argument, plea and threat
in vain effort to break his resolve to stand
steadfast to the flag
And that bright August afternoon as the
regiment halted at the river in sight of the
rolling hills of their beautiful state. the
men of the Emmets had resolved, with but
half dozen exceptions to re-enliSt
reaching home Cap should be re-elect-
ed He was a father to them, an honest old
Irish soldier who didn't know much. but
did the best he knew how. And then. with
cheer, they swOre their second lieutenant
should have a bar upon his shoulder in
place of MallOy. That night a telegram
reached the state senator in Cincinnati which
he gravely read. then thrust into his POCKET
with laugh. '"They can elect whom they
d-n please said he, but We'll appoint
whom we please
A month later and the old regiment. re-