Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-17
CHAPTER XIV.

The Fourth corps was in a ferment: the
Second division almost in a tempest of
which HarkerS brigade was the vortex.
There was a vacancy in the office of major,
- Ohio. Officers from half dozen Ken
lucky regiments were out with kindling
eyes and chips on their shoulder straps
Gaffney-major at last OF the Buckeyes
was going from camp to camp taking two
fingers to Kentucky's one in every toddy,
sparing neither his own stomach nor any
body'3 Monongahela, which was worth 81
drink and couldn't be bought for money.
Wing. with the left leg gene and the right
leg left" as Gaffney said, was the hero
of the hour, but the case for Malloy had
been left without even one leg to stand on
Colonel Pride OF the Buckeyes, but recently
returned from leave, with an abundant
SUI ply of ardent hopes, n moderate ditto
of spirits and an expressed opinion of Sena-
tor Malloy that will not bear publication.
invited the officers 10 his tent to drink
/ Long life to the lad that ought TO be one
OF us and confusion to the cad that pre-
vented it," while the Emmets invited them
selves TO "A nearby ravine, where many were
found in the morning along with an empty
"kGg" flchcd when much more than half
full from The colonel's tent during the dead
hours of the night. Oh, but that was Won
drous night in the Second division, Such
was the close contact of men and breth
rem in those crowded camps that the story
of the scene at Sheridan's tent was all over
the corps in twcnty-four hours, with addl-
;ions and improvements that made II Il
mad success. One thing, however, as told.
was probably true-Malloy had gone to the
devil or the enemy, and few men seemed o
care which. Not only had Wing denounced
him "a linr Iaplopa1 hat bo boI
never written such letter, but also ms a
scoundrel who would drug a mans coffee
that he might swear him TO death for sleep
ing on post This, too, in the presence
and hearing of Sheridan, OF Colonel Pride of
the Buckeyes Enyart of the Kentuckies, and
even the portly chief of Maloy's own regl-
ment the ---- Ohio, Wing declared that
when Connolly was told in prison by DR..
Holt that Malloy had sworn before the
Nashville court that he, Connolly, had
crossed thut bridge without orders of any
kind and that Norman Holt was asleep on
post, the wrath Of the wonged and suffer
Ing soldier was intense. He wept In his
weakness and declared that Normans story
was absolutely true-that Malloy did say,
go; ii would be a feather in the cap of
the Emmets." II was then at last the poor
fellow realized that his officer had made
4 victim Of him In order 10 clear the way
for his plot against Holt, II was then
that he announced his remembering having
seen tho lieutenant recorking that canteen
after slipping something into II. that. at the
time, honest Connolly supposed was only
sugar. Sheridan and his officers. sprlnging
from tholr chairs, stood almost spellbound
as Wing launched his furious denunciation
at the luckless Malloy. Major Lane alone
remained seated as though stunned. his
face concealed for a time in his hands
Varly had Malloy stormed protested and
countered, 81 shall demand a court OF In
quiry at once general" said he. "And as
for this gentleman, he shall answer to me
personally for this Infamous affront." Then
he had begged permission to retire, that he
might instantly make his demand in writing
and lot a haud was extended either to sup