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

diers-were promptly arrayed. The die
was cast. The south had crossed the Ru-
bicon. and loyal Kentucky felt her dignity
assailed. her soil invaded. 1t turned the
scale with many a wavering heart 1t
transferred into unionists and loyalists and
stanch upholders of the old flag scores OF
gallant fellows whose heart strings up TO
that time seemed half woven in the fabric
Of states rights and southern supremacy.
1t cost many a wrench and rupture, but
once the step was taken no man turned
back In hundreds of families brother was
arrayed against brother, the famous names
Of the old commonwealth, whose motto had
been United we stand" were now to be
found In division, brigade and regimental
commands fronting each other in the field
of arms. 1t was the policy of the south to
tempt the wavering with commission to
high rank. 1t was the mistake of the north
to treat with neglect and disfavor soldiers
who hailed from the border states. The
man who had attested his loyalty and de-
vot!on to the Union, even at the cost OF
disnhertance and ostracism, should nave
been above suspicion. There had been
rend.ng apart in the fair old blue grass
country, where galloping scouts announced
the northward sweep Of the confede: ate
columns Asholt was well nigh robbed OF
its able-bodied men, most of whom mao
fastened to Buckner at Bowling Green ana
joined his command. AS for Bellevew, IT
was turned over to the care. as has BEEN
said, of the overseer and butler. The
genial old host of the winter before, with
deeper Ines ABOUT his WlStlul eyes, Win
all the buoyant gadness gone, had taken
himself to Nashville and thence to John-
ston's camp, too old. he SAID, to serve as
surgeon. but not too old to be adviser ana
friend There, too, was Henry. major and
aid-de-camp, and both marveled as they
read from a Louisville paper the names OF
the officers of the -th Ohio, fastened for
ward to reinforce Rousseau, for there was
no Norman Holt among them. They found
instead the name Of j. Burnett Malloy.
Those were days in which papers and peo-
PIE, too, went to and fro between the lines
with little let or hindrance, and there came
der his sword to the south. youth we'll
known to the Hollis and to society
in Louisville and Cincinnati. and
through him for the first time the
amazed father heard the particulars as
given out by the regiment on its way
through Louisville to the front, to wit.
that, although elected first lieutenant by
his men, Norman Holt was believed by the
state authorities to be in sympathy with
the south and in correspondence with
southerners in active rebellion; that he was
considered too "shaky in his loyalty to
be intrusted with a commission: that, de-
prived of il, he had COMPOUNDED his de-
tractors, whoever they were, by enlisting
forthwith in the ranks of the company of
which he was the choice for second in COM
mand.
And hearing this the doctors rage burst
all bounds He had stormed at his son for
siding against the south. He disowned him,
he said, and declared he would never again
receive him. But when told that his boy.
his flesh and blood, had been repudiated
by the state with whose foremost regiment
and with whose colors he had cast his lot,
words utterly failed him. He was for rush
ing back to the Ohio, speeding to Column
bus. boarding the governor in his capitol and
fighting him on the spot for his insult to
the name and fame Of Holt. The boy
might be wrong-headed. ungrateful mis-
led, "all because of his love for a northern
girl - tho doctor had If How a
northern-borns soldier went amiss because
of his love for lass in the sunny southD
Yes, Norman might be "a rank traitor.
sub, to the south, sub, but he was in
capable of double dealing, sub. He could
no more lie than 1 could fly, sub" They
had no easy time holding the irate old gen.
tleman on their side of the Cumberland,
so bent he on resenting the affront
to the name. He stared, incredulOus, when
they told him he would be s'ed and
probably sent to a northern prison. perhaps
tried a spy. If caught within the north
ern lines Mad with eagerness for the south
to assert herself, for the war to begin in
good earnest and to redeem Kentucky. as
he expressed it, he could hardly realize that
the war was actually on and raging all
about him. The idea of accusing a Holt
catch that buckeye governor but once and
he'd horsewhip him. sub, cowhide him, sub.
and those who knew the doctor knew that,
at least, was idle threat.
Henry himse,t caught some of the fathers
fury. He, too, was indignant at the injus-
tice done his brother. He knew even be-
fore the significant break down the night
of the flag presentation how Sore,y Norm IN
was tried. He knew how the lad grieved
over Lanes altered manner and the almost
frigii greeting accorded him when he called
at the h"use. He knew that the boys brave
heart was fairy surrendered to that lovely
face and winsome smile, but the face had
been clouded the smile timorous and fitful
for days before the fata, shot that divided
north from south and set brother against
brother. Lane would live up scrupuiouS,y
to the business obligation which made
Henry junior partner. and Norman
reader in his office, but beyond that Henry
Holt saw plainly the pragmatical lawyer
would not gr. He saw, moreover. thai
Lane who had so deprecated Senator NAL
loy's influence over Mcintyre. and who had
been so AYERS to the younger Malloy's ad
,ances was b. April almost as frequently
in conferenoo with the senator as ever Nc
Intyre hau bee 4, while Ma,ioy, jr., almost
haunted the old house on 18th street toward
which Norman SO often walked at evening,
and to which his visits became perforce -ess
and less frequent. What Henry did not
. know was tina Daisy Lane, at least, hello
out against tn assiduous devotions of Ma
10y, AID despite all the whisperings she
heard by day or night to the detriment oil
Norman Holt, warmed to him in her inner
most neart even though forbidden to en-
courage him tn least Theodore thinks
the world of him. she said, with flaming
cheeks, the evening foiioWlng the peseL-
tation. She had actually let Norman see
little of the compassion and tenderness OF
her heart, and thereby made him almost
forget the humiliation of his failure as
speechmaker. But the mother had sWooped
upon them and round,y rated Daisy as soon
as Norman could with decency be made to
take his leave. Theodore thinks the world
of him, and so did you, papa, until after
he came here from Belleview! Now you
snub him-you welcome Mr. Malloy. 1t was
lust the other way three months ago..
wherein the young lady spake only truth,
but to no purpose.
Times are changed said Mrs. Lane,
land what might have been suitable last
winter is now out of the question. Besides,
your father finds he misjudged Senator
Malloy. He is man much misunder-
STOOD and when Mrs. Lane spoke thus
loftily, the daughter knew that argument
was useless
Yet her heart was wrung and her tears
fell thick and fast when the regiment hur-
ried away at the call of danger. There had
been a look in Norman'S eyes, clasp from