Evening star., 1901-02-02

nave had him court-mafualed. NOW Ohlo
has made him major. "shn
"And to think" moaut Gaffney. Holt
niver yet pulled the noee him, as he
promised-or as 1 promise6 for him, which
had Lee come % by wire. Even cold Rosey'. could M
not interpose. and all thezhhrd swearing of
bluff McCook and a hostoof other hard
fighting Buckeyes came Zoo; late. In war.
as In peace, friend at ticourt Is worth a
hundred afield. b3sG
But away over across Ithe river, in the
camp of another brigade. There was less
to swear about. Th -th Kerftucky had lost
heavily In the sharp fighting of the first
day, the last Of 60, but It's senior captain
took the leaves of the major who had fallen
three lieutenants. the adjutant among them,
stepped up to the double bars. and the
dered him the adjutancy. Gravely, yet
gratefully. the young soldier accepted. HIS
whole soul was in his work. Duty and
duty alone seemed the dominant thought.
eIgy. There had come lull in the conduct
of the war. Bragg went into winter quar-
ters about Tullahoma.
The Army Of the Cumberland strove to
keep bold array on half rations at the
front. and an un.mpeded supply line at the
rear. This latter they couldn't do. The
The north as yet had developed no general
who had the faintest conception of It's
proper function. The men who knew were
not the ones IN position to say. Rosecrans.
HUWeNSI, DeSSSu lOi Cavalry anu SuCCSeUSl
finally In getting certain regiments OF
mounted men which in course of time
might merit the name, provided their essays
were not too ambitious. For months the
southern troopers made Life a burden to
the railway guards, and rode almost at will
all over Tennessee, raiding sometimes into
far Kentucky, planning soon to sweep into
Ohio. Meantime the Army OF the Cumber-
land like that in Flanders, swore and stag
mated, but Norman Holt worked Ike
beaver to the end that his Kentucky guards
grew famous throughout the corps, and to
the further end that the reg ment was pres
emily called in to do duty in the immediate
guard .anship, as it were, of corps-and ter
of army-headquarters. 1t was not what
the Kentuckians wanted if there was fight
ing to be dlne, but so long as they were
loafing about m camp it had many an adj
vantage. 1t split the regiment into detach-
ments, however. which uid not please the
colonel, and it kept him and his adjutant
close to the throne. when speedily led to
strange results.
One day in early April came letter Nor
man Holt was long ng fora letter from
Kate Ray. 1t gave him food for thought
for many a week. as well as cause for
speedy action She wrote from Cincinnati.
whittier she had gone at the urgent sum-
mons of Mrs. Lane. There had been pre-
vious letters-letters brimful Of pride ana
afectionate interest from Lex -ngton. They
had heard-and she had taken care that
they should know 1t at Cincinnati-of his
splendid service at Stone River. Now sac
his devotion to soldier duty, weighed heav-
lily on his heart Though he had written
briefly, coldly proudly to Margaret Lane
in answer to her cold and even cruel letter,
though he ! ad told her N so many words
4 at she need never dread another visit from
him, he could not so summarlly shut her
out of his thoughts. He could not but long
to know the resut'of Malioys meme gong.
Gaffney the E,nmets and the Buckeyes,
generally, had written many disdainfui
thing of the new major TO the Old folks at
home but the major was there, 0n me
spot and so was the crippled colonel. the
latter loaded with hosp tally az the hands
of the senior Malloy, ana whispered prom
ises of the speedy coming OF the yellow
sash and silver star, provided he would
stand up for MallOy, II. so what could
he do? The new regiment waS recruited up
in the old Western ReserNe. The men were
camped or housed. and the majors duties
were not SO arduous tnal ne cou no.
spend much tine in Cincinnati. Presently
Colonel Pride was able to hebble about on
crutches and say good words for MIN in
society. Major Lane had gone, to Nashville
leaving h-s business and ms househoid 10
the fostering care of Senator Mailoy. and 1t
all looked Ike PLAIN sailing for the lucky
young field officer Wien Kate Kay was
cal ed to Cincinnati by-a aefeiy trIubtsd
mother. They had had news OF Iheooo.e'
brought by an oiiicer-an exchanged pr's-
oner 1t gave much rel-ef to the molher'
but Daisy seemed gong into decline.
No wonder Kates letter was OF vivid In
..Daisy Is listless, nervous, ftful. but de-
clares there's nothing the matter. The doc
tor talks vaguely and seems puZZied. MAJOR
Nallov so Mrs. Kane tells me, has been a
frequent visitor. ana SO neipiul, kinu anu anu
ccrs!derate But since my coming he mas
been very busy at Dayton. The regiment
Is to be sent forward ina few days What
/ do not understand is Senator Malloys po-
sition. / did not tell you, but when was
here before he appeared just as | was leaV-
ing. Now he is very frequently caiier.
Mrs Lane says she has to confer with MN
about Mr.. Lanes business AFFAIRS But
Daisy ought to be spared those conferences.
vet twice she has had to go down TO see
h nj, and both times looked wretched Wheh
she returned. Tomorrow l must nasten
home. 1 am needed there. But so wahteo li
to see Colonel Pride, who has been taxing
Vi the cudgels for Major Malloy. ana OF
course what the colonel says has great
weight against what has been said or writ
ten by brother officers 'envious, posslo!y.
Of his success; Nor did ge, mere sona III o,n.s
to see the officer who brought Iheooore
letter. II seems the gentleman had ueeh
captured when severely wounded, had given
his parole and was sent through thee lines
fer month at Chattanooga. He has re,
signed and gone home, but Mrs. Lane SAID
he spoke of the kindness shown MIN py
your brother Henry. and of having seen
Henry with Captain Wing. who is quite
well of his wound and eager for exchange.
1t was through Henry that Theodore was
able to meet this officer and send letter 10
his mother-an appeal for money mainly.
but he writes he knows now that you were
in no wise connected with his detection ana
capture. ! can't help thinking he knew
then when he made his furious denunc!a-
tlon l can't help thinking. too, that Hen
ry had something to do with his putting
that in his letter. 1t is my belief that Hem
~ and your dear impulsive old father have
long since learned through Cap ain Wing
the real truth about thai BellevieW affair.
an1 that they were as unjust one way as
Ger. ain of your superiors were in another.
They knew of your court-martial and par
don. They know so very much more about
what is going on in our army than we 90
of theirs. But, Norman. 1t is of Daisy l
am thinking now. If you were only here!
II you could only come few days! Can't
you? l cannot get her to talk but Wo-
mans intuition Is keen, and II seems to me
that she is being entangled in net she 10
vainly struggling against. Now, II you
were here. Norman, l think you could
break 1t. What 1 dread-I must tell 1t you
is that they are striving to persuade her
to marry Major Malloy before he goes
again to the front.
Nov. foIg give one question. know that
Judge Mcintyre had invested all that your
mother left. and that most of 1t was lost,
but wasn't there something for you and
Henry that MIR. Lane was looking out for2
Has there been any accounting? Do you
know whether Mr.. Malloy has anything to
do with 1t now? Some things have been