Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-15

:. 2 had not even abated their position when the officer-of-the-day happened along. They virtually damned and. defied him, too.
 The officer-of-the-day reported tol the commanding officer, and that officer called on Mrs. Hay to tell her! he should order the culprits of tho, reservation if they were not better behaved. Mrs. Hay, so said tho serv- ant, was feeling far from well and had to ask to be excused, when who should appear but the ministering angel Mrs. Dade herself, and Mrs. Dade undertook to tell Mrs. Hay of the misconduct of the men, even when assuring Major Flint she feared it was 8 matter in which Mrs. Hay was powerless. They were afraid of Hay, but not of her. Hearing of Mrs. Hays illness, Mrs. Dade and other women had come to visit and console her, but there were very few she would now consent to see. Even though confident no bodily harm would befall her husband or her niece, Mrs. Hay was evidently sore disturbed about something. Failing to see her, Maj. Flint sent for the bartender and clerk, and bade them say where these truculent, semi-say- age bacchanals got their whisky, and both men promptly and confi- dently declared it wasn't at the store. Neither of them would give or sell to either halfbreed drop, and old Wilkins stood sponsor for the integ- rity of the affiants: both of whom he had known for years and both of whom intimated that the two speci- mems had no need to be begging, buy ing or stealing whisky, when Bill Hays private cellar held more than enough to fill the whole Sioux nation. Moreover" said Pink Marble, .'tbey,ye get. the. run of the stables now, the old, mans away, and there isn't night some of those horses ain't out" When Flint said that was something Mrs. Hay ought to know, Pink Marble replied that was some thing Mrs. Hay did know, unless she refused to believe the evidence of her own senses as we'll as his, and Pink thought it high time our fellows in the field had recaptured Hay and fetched him home. If it wasn't done mighty soon he, Pink, wouldn't be answerable for what might happen at the post.
 All the more anxious did this mako Flint. He decided that the exigencies of the case warranted his putting sentry over Hays stable, with orders to permit no horse to be taken out except by an order from him, and Crabb took him and showed him, two days later, the tracks of two horses going and coming in the soft earth in front of a narrow side door that led to the corral. Flint had this door padlocked at once and Wilkins took the key, and that night was surprised by note from Mrs. Hay.
 "The stablemen complain that the sentries wip not let them take the horses out even for water and exer- else, which has never been the case before," and Mrs. Hay begged that the restriction might be removed. Indeed, if Mai. Flint would remove the sen. try, she would assume all responsible ity for loss or damage. The men had been with Mir. Hay, she said, for six years and never had been interfered with before, and they were sensitive and hurt and would quit work, they said, if further molested. Then there would bc nobody to take their place and the stock would suffer.
 In point of fact, Mrs. Hay was pleading for the very men against whom the other employees claimed to have warned her-these two half-' breeds who had defied his sentries-- and Flint's anxieties materially in- creased. It taxed all his stock of per sonsl piety, and strengthened the be- lief he was beginning to harbor, that Mrs. Hay had soms use for the horses at night-some sojourners in the neighborhood with whom she must communicate, and who could they be
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