The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-11-03
III.

So complete was his control of voice
and manner that ms he galioped back
10 his quarters no one would have
dreamed that General Brunt had-!iust
looked upon the likeness of his wife
from whom he had parted in anger
four years ago. Still less would they
have suspected the singular fear that
came upon him that in some vague
way she was connected with the
trearhery he had just discovered. He
had heard from her only once, and
then through her lnte husbands law
yer in regard to her California prop
erty, and believed that she had gone
to her rc%lntions in Alabama, where
she had identified herself with the
southern cause even to the sacrifice of
her private fortune. He had heard
her name mentioned in the southern
press as Il fascinating society leader,
and even c~oadjntriN of southern poll
ticiarS-but he had no reason to be-
lieve that she had taken so active or
50 desperate Il part in the struggle.
He tried Il think that his uneasiness
previous ~t:cachcr,st of Captain Pinck-,
California conspiracy-although hei
Il W. ttiNtt' lISIEfpI NV
betrayal of another trust. But there
was a fateful similarity in the two
CAGES. There was no doubt that this
Lieutenant Wainwright was n traitor
in the camp-that he had succumbed
TO the miserable sophistry of his class
in regard to his superior allegiance to
his native state. but was there the
inducement of another emotion-or
was the photograph only the souvenir
of a fascinating priestess of rebellion
whom the dead man had met? There
was perhaps less of feeling than scorn
in the first suggestion, but he was,
nevertheless, relieved when the pro-
rost marshal Sellnd no discriminating
papers in Wai%AEright's effects. Nor
did he reveal to the division general
the finding of the photograph. 1t was
sufficient to disclose the work of the
traitor without adding what might be
Il clew to his wife's participation in
iii, near or remote. There was risk
enough in the former course-which5
his duty made imperative. He hardly
dared to think of the past days
Slaughter, which-there was no doubt
noW-had been due TO the previous
work Of the spy, and how his brigade
had been selected-by the irony of
fate-to suffer for and yet retrieve it.
If she had Il hand i'll that wicked plot,
ought he to spare her.? Or were his
destiny and hers to be thus mon
stronsly linked together?
Luckily, however, the explanation
of the chief offender and the timely
discovery Of his papers enabled the
division commander to keep the af-
fair discreetly silent and to enjoin
equal secrecy on the part of Brnnt.
The latter, however, did not relax his
vigilance, and after the advance the
next day he made Il minute inspection
of the ground he was TO occupy, its
approaches and connections viii, the
outlying country and the rebel lines.
increased the stringency of pickets
ard sentry regulations. and exercised
"a rigid surveillance of noncoinbatants
and civilians within the lines--even to
the lowest canteener or camp follow
err. Then he turned his attention to
the house he was to occupy as his
headquarters.
1T wa II fine specimen of the old,
colonial planters house, will. its
broad veraudus, its great detached Of
Aces and negro quarters. and had.
thls far e.caFed thesrafages and bill
etingo5 lie war. 1t had been oc-
cupied by it, owner up to n few days