The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-01

I them, you say, are that you are too
young to know your own mind. That
might be true of some but you were
ripe in judgment, I'll venture 10 say
at the age of 10. But there's some
thing back of this, which | know, ana
he knows, but honor forbids either OF
us telling. That is the real reason, Bes-
sic. While it is not question OF
honor between your father and my
self, il goes back to the days when L
was an attache in the war depart
ment at Washington. Soon after IL
happened Colonel Millard's influence
sent me in exile to the Dakotas IN re-
turn I had had your fathers pleas
ant and peaceful berth in the hydro
graphic Office changed TO that OF COM
mandant heTe-or, rather, my motner
/ had Then circumstances. with winch
neither of us had to do, brought me
| here. Perhaps it was TO make US
watch each other, for our affairs IS no
secret in the war department. l some
times think that when I'm retired Tor
age I'll wave the half pay l am en-
titled to and write a book entitled
1.-The War Department Turned Inside
| Out" Some think that intrigue died
with Catherine de Medici; from what
I saw in the war department Judge
she was merely novice"
Just then an orderly appeared and
saluted, then handed an official envel-
! ope to the lieutenant. 1t was stretch
| ing red tape pretty far, even for the
garrison at San Anton, where 1t is
/ known the starch of the army is stiff
/ est. Lieutenant Harris tore upon the
! envelope and read: You are directed
/ to report at the garrison office before
! Colonel Willard at o'clock this even
| ing, this date 1t was signed by the
/ coloneTs private secretary.
THE beginning of hostilities," he said
with wan smile, Il think 1 know
| what it .means-perhaps you can guess,
! Bessie: but let US not mention it until
| it really happens. Come into the ar
/ Dor again, where we can talk more
| freely. 1 imagine my footsteps will be
logged by spies since / have opened
my batteries and declared war last
| night. Perhaps the colonel imagined
| that 1 would not see you after he for
| bade il last night Fortunately, dis
| obedience in this matter does not come
| within reach of the code of military
offenses. You are the only one he can
go to for redresS-and / believe he
! fears you worse than he does the In
dians.' The two entered the arbOr and
were lost in the small talk with which
lovers alone are interested.
When Colonel Willard. received the
mail he looked 1t through carefully De
fore he took any of it under consider
alton. There seemed to be one docu-
! ment that interested him. II was
franked by the war department. and
] was cOlored blue. He opened it at
! once, and then turning TO his secre-
/ tary, dictated the letter which we have
/ really already heard He could see
through a crack in the canvas his
daughter and Lieutenant Harris en-
gagged in conversation in the garden
He watched until he saw the order
opened and read; he noted the smile
J which came over thG young mans face,
and then. savagely biting his goatee,
he proceeded to his routine work.
/ For three administrations the colonel
had been a figure in the social life of
Washington. He had married shortly
after his departure from WeSh Point
into one of those select dynasties whose