The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-07
Understand whatg I said.

Understand what? I said
Why he said, l mean l can't let
that spy of yours get back to your
lines-i3 l can help it. He might find
out something by which your army
could wipe us out, especially if Buelrs
army hasn't crossed the river yet or
Lew Wallace comes up. OF course.
I don't know what's happened with
us; but ] can't risk anything on &C
count of that. I've one good hand yet
and my revolver. So when he comes
back I'm going 10 warn him and you
i can't murder even a spy-and then
I'm going TO shoot. Do you under
stand, Buings? he said.
Il don't remember what I said at
first, but it wasn't long, I remember,
before l lost my temper. l remem-
Der, anyway, that 1 made il clear that,
even if our man was a spy, l couldn't
see him shot, and that il he was going
10 be so hasty and particular about
his duty l should have TO be, too.
believe I tried TO make him agree to
pair off as they do in congress and
parliament by not taking sides about
the matter if l wouldn't. But he said
that that wouldn't keep the spy from
getting back 10 Beauregard. and at the
end of the hour we were just where we
started-eXcept that 1 was angrier ev-
cry minute and he was cooler. Yet.
no matter how angry I got, l cOuldn't
help but admire the nerve of the man
with only one good hand and wounded
III other places so he couldn't move, yet
warning me he was going 10 fight us
both if he had 10.
We had said about all there was to
be said and had waited about ten min
utes more in an awfully STILL strained
silence, when WillOughby seemed to
make out our man coming from the
Union lines.
Billings he called loudly, and you
spy there, l give you fair warningi I'm
going To shoot"
- He waited a minute, and I thought
that, at the last, he wasn't going TO do
il, when his revolver rang out. The
bullet went SO close that at first l for
got that he wasn't shooting at me, but
over my head at the other man. He
ignored me, entirely even when l COW
cred him with my gun and told him
10 throw down his pistol He must
have known from the way I spoke and
from what l had said before that I
meant 10 back that up; but he only
laughed queerly and prepared 10 shoot
again. / Couldn't couldn't let him
do it, for, in spite Of the warning, the
other man didn't seem 10 realize what
was happening; and he was so near
that il would have been murder if I
had let Willoughby fire again. But,
boys" the old graduate strained for
ward tensely, Il reckOn-I reckon il
was murder, anyhow, but l know
have tried TO be sure that l only shot
10 knock the gun from his hands"
From below, as the drawn muscles of
the old Harvard man relaxed and he
sank gratefully back into the deep
cushions of the big chair, from the wide
expanse beneath the window, came the
light rustic. the merry hum and laugh
of the moving crowds. Half an hour
before IL had been the living, present
thing; but now, as the two boys on
either side of the old man gazed down,
IL was all strange, foreign and incOn-
gruous.
"And-and that is aH?" they said.
"Yes-all. except that the third man
was not the spy. He was a Union am
bulance doctor and went to Willoughby
first. But Willoughby made him come
20 me. He said he was done for and
that They carried me away" the old
graduate substituted desperately. i
never saw him again or even knew
where he was buried"
He sat quite still then and the two
juniors beside him. Then Burton arose.
and standing at the window looked
down. II was almost o'clock and the
who had been fortunate enough to at
tend the commencement dinner in Me
mortal hall, was passing from building
10 building The band started the first
notes of Fair Harvard" From the
oldest white-haired grandfather TO the
youngest little brother i'm the great
quadrangle they rose TO their feet and
removed their hats
Fair Harvard. thy sons TO thy jubilee
thrOng,
And with blessings surrender thee
Ger"
They sang all the verses, and after
IL was finished, while they still stood
together, somebody suggested another
last cheer for the oldest class. over
on HolwOrthy hung the 81; and
seeing that first the crowd cheered il
again and then again.
When the song had begun the old
graduate and young Stafford had joined
Burton standing at the window of Hol-
lis 16; but now Burton suddenly left
them. He worked at his desk for a
moment and quickly returned with a
big cardboard with black numerals
hastily cut and pasted upon it. Open
ing the window, he waved il 10 and
fro before he fastened it.
"Forty-nine" some one in the ward
called. u ok at Hollis" he cried
"Forty-nine, BY George, they have a
man of 80 up there" And the great
crowd took up the cry, following the
leader as he swung his stick:
Harvard Harvard! Harvard Rah
rah, rah! Rah, rah, ran! Rah, rah
rahl Forty -nine. Forty-nine! FORTY
NINEw