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ofernor...Silas Holoomb
Lieutenant Governor.J. E .Hams
Secretary of State.Wm. 1). Porter
state Treasurer..John B. Meserve
State Auditor.John h. Cornell
Attorney Geueral.C. J- pmytne
Com. Lands and Building*.■ ■ •}• V. R olfe
Supt. Public Instruction.W. B. Jackson
HEGENT8 STATE UNIVERSITY.
Ohas. H. Gere. Lincoln: Leavitt Burnhaui,
Omaha; J M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Howies,
Pierce; J. T. Mailaieu, Kearney; M. J. Hull,
Edgar.
Representatives First Dlstrlot, J. B. 8trode
Second, H. D. Meroer, Third. 8. Maxwell,
Fourth. W, L. Stark. Fifth, R. O. Sutherland,
Sixth, VV. L. Green.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senators—W. V. Allen, of Madison; John
M. Thurston, of Omaha.
J URICl ART.
Chief Justice.A. M. Post
Associates.. .T.O. Harrison and T. L. Nor vail
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Judge..M. P. Kinkald, of O’Neill
Reporter..J. J. King of O'Neill
" H. Westover, o?llushv lie
Reporter.• 'hn Maher* of Ruehvllle.
LAND OFFICES.
t. o'hbill.
.ruuskter .. .John A. Harmon.
Receiver........ . .... . ...Elmer Williams.
COUNTY.
illd„B ..Geo McCutcheon
S? ^ bl9tr,ct .0ou^.:.:.J?o.uM8.%iiin?
Treasurer..7.7.7.V,.J- P- Mullen
Deputy.".....Bm Bethea
rmn.Vtv.. .Mike MoCarthy
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"ef!“of'80lwolii.V.V".‘.....a Jackwn
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ssistant.7.7....Mrs. W. R. Jackson
,ss is taut Dr. Trueblood
irveyor""' .7' 77777.’.'. 7..M. F. Norton
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SUPERVISORS.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga,
Bock Palls and Pleasantv lew :J. A. Robertson
SECOND DISTRICT.
Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wll
lowdale and Iowa—J. H. Hopkins.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Grattan aud O'Neill—Mosses Campbell.
* FOURTH DISTRICT.
Ewing, Verdigris and Delolt—L. C. Combs
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Chambers, Conley, Lake, KcClure and
luman—S. L. Conger.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Swan. Wyoming, Fairvlew, PJranels. Green
Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—O. W. mobs.
seventh district.
Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats.
CUT OF O'NEILL.
Supervisor, E. J. Maok; Justloes, EH.
Benedict and 8. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed.
McBride and Perkins Brooks.
COUNCHJIBN—FIRST WARD.
For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For one
- year—C. W. Hagensick.
SECOND WARD.
For two years—Alexander Marlow. For
one year—W. T. Evans.
THIRD WARD.
* For two years—Charles Davis. For one
year—E» J. Mack.
01TT OFFICERS. „ w
Mayor, H. E. Murphy; Clerk, N. Slartln,
Treasurer. John McHugh; City Engineer
John Horrtsky; Police Judge, H. Kautzman:
Chief of Police, P. J. Bigllu; Attorney,
Thos. Carlon; Welghmaster, D. Stannard.
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GRATTAN TOWNSHIP.
u per visor, B. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney
MdBreevy; Clerk, J. Sullivan ; Assessor Ben
Johrlng: Justices, M. Castello and Ohas.
Wilcox; Coustables, John Horrlsky and Ed.
McBride; Bead overseer dlst. as. Allen Brown
diet. No. 4,John Enright.
SOLDIERS’ RELIEF OOMNISSION.
Regular meeting first Monday in Febru
ary of each year, and at suoh other times as
is deemed necessary, ltobt. Gallagher, Page,
chairman; Wm. Bowen, O'Neill, secretary;
H. H. Clark Atkinson.
OT. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH.
O Services every Sabbath at 10:80 o clock.
Very Kev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath sohool
Immediately following serylces.
Vi RTHODIST --
iXL servloes—Preaching 10:31
CHURCH. Sunday
„__ohing 10:30 A. M. and 8:00
p. m. Olass No. 1 0:30 a. m. Class No. 2 (Ep
worth League)7:00 P. M. Class No. J (Child-,
rens) 3:00 p. M. Mind-week services—General
Cray er meeting Thursday 7:30 p. H. All will
e made welcome, especially strangers.
B. T. GEORGE. Pastor.
A. R. POST, NO. 86. The Hem John
lx. O'Neill Post, No. 86, Department of Ne
braska G. A. R., will meet the first and third
Saturday evening of each month in Masonic
hall O’Neill 8. J. Smuh, Com.
Invited to attend.
W. U. Mason, N. G.
0. L. Brioht. Sec.
Garfikld chapter, b. a. m
Meets on first and third Thursday of each
month In Masonic hall. _ „ _
11 OULU 111 MMUUIU “«***• _ _ _ _„ n
W. J. Dobks See. J. 0. Harris^, H, r
OF P.—HELMET LODGE. U.D.
__ Convention every Monday at It o dock p.
m. In Odd Fellow*' hall. Vial ting brethem
cordially invited.
Arthur Ooykkndall, 0.0.
E. J. Mack. K. of H. and 8.
O’NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 80.1.
O. O. F. meet* every second and fourth
Friday* of each month in Odd Fellow* Hall.
Ohas. Bright, H. P. H. M. Tttley, Scribe
Eden lodge no. ai, daughters
OF RBBBKAH, meet* every lat and Sd
Friday of each month In Odd Fellow* Hall.
AqnssT. Bentley, N. G.
Dora Davidson, Sec.
S'lARFlELD LODGE, N0.85.F.A A.M.
Vj uegular communication* Thursday night*
on or before the full of the^moon.^^^ ^ ^
O. O. Snyder, Sec.
HOLTH1AMP NO. lTIO, M. W. OF A.
Meet* on the first and third Tuesday In
each month In the Masonic hall.
Neil Brennan, V. 0. D. H. Cronin, Clerk
AO, U. W. NO. 158. Meets second
• and fourth Tudsday of each month In
Masonic hall. „ „
0. Bright, Hec. S. B. Howard, H, W.
INDEPENDENT WORKMEN OF
AMEU1CA, meet every first and third
Friday of each month.
Geo. McOdtohan, N. M.
J. H. Welton, Seo.
POSTOFFICE DIKCBTORY
Arrival of Malls
». I. h M. V. R. R.—raOM THE EAST,
day, Sunday lnoluded at.9:40 p n
THOM THE WEST
very day, Sunday lnoluded at.10:04 am
PACIFIC SHORT LINE.
Passenger-leaves 10:0!A. M. Arrive* 11:55 p.m.
©Bight—leaves 0:07 p. m. Arrives 7:00 p. M.
«stly except Sunday.
X. O’NEILL AND CHELSEA.
Depart* Monday, Wed. and Friday at 7:00 am
Arrive*Tuesday,Thur*.and Sat. at..1:00pm
O’NEILL AND PADDOCK._
Depart* Monday. Wed.and Friday at..7dip am
Arrive* Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at. .4:30 p m
O’NEILL AND NIOBRARA.
Depart* Monday. Wed. and Frt. at—7:00 a m
Arrives Tuesday,'Thur*. and Sat. at.. .4:00 p m
O'NEILL AND CUMMINSVILLE.
Arrive* Mon.,Wed. and Fridays a ..11:00 p.m
Depart* Mon., Wed. and Friday at.1:00 p.m
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Lambert. “Any of the men could have
gone, I suppose.’’
“Well, six, the trouble is that he’d
’■ uve hail to send the men, on inuleback,
* r else pay their fares over on the cars.
The captain has a pass, and it doesn’t
cost him anything; and. he’s afraid to
let the mule be gone over night. It’s
mighty easy losin’ ’em among all these
niggers, and they might charge it up
against the captain’s pay. The captain
Ikus stuck close to camp so far as these
night posses have been concerned, but
he’d bunt the whole state for a lost
blanket or bayonet. And he always
goes alone—and gets whoft he’s afier,
and he’s had no trohble worth mention
in’; but that fellow Potts was impudent
to him to-day, and he was slow ’bout
seein’ it at first; now, though, he’s got
lrs mad up and gone over there to get
the mule and satisfaction both; that’s
what I'm afraid of, sir. He lashed
1'armeleee tio-day for bein’ 3 coward,
and—beggin’ your pardon, lieutenant
—though the captain aint much on mil
itary, he fires up like a flash at anything
like insult to the flag.”
“Do you think it advisable to send
nfter the captain?” asked Lambert,
after a moment’s reflection.
“There’s no' way we can send, sir,
’eept afoot or behind a four-mule team
in an army wagon. We only had that
one saddle mule.”
Lambert stepped to the tent door and
looked out. The sky was overcast and
the darkness thick. A wind was rising
and whirling the sparks from the cook
fire over by the road, and from the pipes;
of the men sitting smoking and chatting
in little groups about camp. Some had
Tiyiac with MUtaal flamtn to write oomo lot
ton.
come to him at nightfall and nought
permission to go in to the village, and
he had felt obliged to refuse. After the
events, of the day it seemed wisest to
hold them at camp, and he had so in
formed Sergt. Burns. As he stood there
now looking uneasily about, first at
the dork threatening sky, then at the
darker shadows about camp, Lambert
thought he caught sight of three or
four forms, vague and indistinct, hurry
ing along the bank beyond the lire.
“Who are those men?” he asked.
“I don’t know, sir. I warned the com
pany to remain in camp. I’ll see.” And
Burns turned quickly and made a run
for the opposite end of the company
grounds. Some of the men started up
and stood gazing expectantly after him,
and the chat and laughter suddenly
ceased. The shadowy forms had dis
appeared ; so, by this time, had Burns.
Then there came the sound of his power
ful voice, out by the road:
“Halt there, you men! Come back
nerer
Then followed a rush and scramble
in the bushes, and the sound of foot
falls, rapid and light, dying away in the
darkness. Then some low laughter and
comment among the men. Then Burns
came back, and, without waiting to re
port, sternly ordered: “Fall in! ”
Knocking the ashes out of their pipes
and buttoning their overcoats—a thing
they might have overlooked before the
lesson of the day—the soldiers slowly
obeyed the unusual summons. Burns
got his lantern and quickly called the
roll. Four men failed to respond. Leav
ing the company still in line, the ser
geant hastened to the tents for the
absentees. Two of the number were
found placidly sleeping. Two were,
away entirely—Privates Riggs and
Murphy.
“If I'm not mistaken I saw three
shadows,” said Lambert, os the sergeant
made his report. “What would the cap
tain do if he were here?—send a patrol?”
“The captain never had a night roll
call, sir; but he wouldn’t send a patrol.
That's only a good way of not ketchin’
men, unless they’re too drunk to run.
It wouldn't be of much consequence,
only for that man Riggs bein’ one of
’em. He’s a troublesome case. If the
lieutenant approves of it, I’ll sent Sergt.
Watts nnd a couple of good men without
arms. They can find whoever’s out.
What I don’t like about it is that some
body jumped the fence into the Walton
place.”
| “The old homestead across the road?”
“Yes, sir. There’s been some trouble
between the captain'and the Walton
family. lie ordered the- men never to
old lady made such a row ’bout it.”
“Who lives there? Surely they ought
to welcome our sending responsible men
over tp drive oil our renegades.”
“Well, I don’t know ’bout that, sir,”
said the sergeant, with a nervous laugh.
“It there’s anybody on earth the cap
f.'.'n,s afraid of, it’s old Mrs. Walton.
:;>/s a terror. Nothin’ of the unpro
tected female about her, sir, though she
and her daughters live alone there.
Both her sons were shot during the war;
one was killed, and the other’s in Havana
—or Mexico; said he'd neVer surrender,
and won’t come home. I reckon they’re
pretty hard up there, sometimes, but
you should see how the old lady rides it
over the captain, sir. I wonder she
hasn’t been over to pay you a visit. Shall
I send after. Biggs and Murphy, sir?
It’s like sendin’ good money after bad.
They haven’t a cent, either of ’em, and
if town was their object there’s no use
in their goin’; nobody would trust’em.”
Then came interruption—the sound of
a horn, on ordinary tin horn, too, float
ing through the dark and muttering
night.
“That’s her, lieutenant. That’s the
old lady herself. She reads prayers
reg’larly at half-past nine every night,
and some of the niggers are out yet.
They used to hare a conch shell that
sounded pretty, but Parmelee said they
had to sell it. They’ve had to sell pret
ty much everything, tryin’ to keep
alive." ,
Again the sound of the cheap and
despised tin. Lambert recalled it as a
necessary concomitant of the street
boy and straw rides about the Christ
mas holidays, and its summons, he
thought, was never to prayer; it called
for many a lively malediction.
“Send Sergt. Watts, if you think it
advisable,” said he, briefly. “I’m going
up on the road a moment.”
Again the blast of the horn, short,
staccato, imperative, and then an im
patient, querulous voice at the north
end of the porch—a voice calling: “You,
Elinor! you wuthless black gadabout!
wh’ ah yqu?”
And as Lambert scrambled up the
steep path and reached the road an
other voice, low, tremulous, eager, close
at hand, whispered: “Oh, I thought
you’d never come! Hyuh! quick! Leave
the money, shuah, and the pail,
t’maiw’ow night.”
And then, with a rustle of feminine
garments, bending law, a slender, girl
ish form shot across the beam of lamp
light falling from an east window.
Another form, also feminine, scurried
away from the hedgerow and some
thing came rolling out into the road
way, clinking against the stones. There
was sount^ of voluble reprimand and
flustered explanation at the north end
of the building, a quick, kitten-like pat
ter of little feet up the rickety old steps
in front and in an instant the girlish
form seemed perched on the window
sill. There a second or two it hovered,
motionless, until a door slammed
around at the north side of the house.
Then in popped the slender figure, out
went the light, and but for the sigh
and complaint of the night wind in the
rustling branches of the old trees about
the veranda all was silence at Walton
hall.
VII.
It was after ten when Capt. Close re
turned, and barely 11 when he again
Set forth. This time a sergeant and
ten picked men went with him, nobody
but Close knew whither, “I may be
gone two days, lieutenant,” said he, in
the laborious use of the title which
among regulars “to the manor bora”
had long been replaced by “Mr.;” and
had not Lambert asked for instructions
none probably would have been given.
Of his adventures during the day he
said not a word. He brought back the
mule, and that was enough. The first
thing Lambert and Burns knew of his
return was the sound of his voice at
the wagon, informing the guard that
he wanted coffee and something to
eat. Then, paying only vague atten
tion to Lambert’s congratulations on
his safe return, he told Burns to get a
detachment ready at once, then dis
appeared within the dark interior of
his tent, leaving Lambert standing in
some embarrassment and chagrin out
side. “Looking to see if his strong box
is all safe,” whispered the first ser
geant, as he came up. “It’s under the
boards—under his cot—and he never
lets anybody come in, not even the mar
shal.”
It was full five minutes before the
captain reappeared. He struck no light
meantime, but could be heard fumbling
around in the darkness. When he came
forth he had some papers in his hands.
“We’ll go to your tent, sergeant,” he
said. “Your desk is handier. How’ve
you got along, lieutenant?”
“Two men are out, sir; Biggs and
Murphy—”
“Dam blackguards, both of ’em—
’specially Riggs; almost the oldest sol
dier in the company, too,” said Close,
wrathfully, seating himself at the desk
and beginning to arrange the papers
for signature.
“I had been told I should find some
splendid old oaks among the rank and
file,” hazarded Lambert, after a pause,
and thinking his commander should
give some directions in the case.
“Old oaks ? Old soaks, most like,”
was the disdainful answer—“ ’special
ly Higgs. He come from the cavalry.
Why, I’ve had them two fellows tied
up by the thumbs three times since
last March; and it h&in’t hurt ’em no
more’n if they were cast iron. Better
keep a guard over the mules while
I’m away, sergeant—or, rather, lieu
tenant; you see, I ain’t use to havin’
anybody but the sergeant. Oh! Now
’bout them mileage papers o’ yourn.
You said not to send ’em. Why not?’’
"You’ve made out a charge of some,
sixty-five dollars for transportation of
a servant, sir; I brought no servant
with me."
“What’s the difference? The law
’lows it, Every officer’s entitled to a
servant. And if he does his own work
he’s entitled to what the servant would
get. You didn’t black your boots on
the way, did you? You had a servant
do it. He was with you on the train—
porter of the sleeping-car, wasn’t he?
I iffever go in the durn things myself,
but you did, I’ll warrant. Well, you
paid him out of your pocket, every
time you changed cars or boat.”
“That may be, sir; but I can’t sign
any such claim as sixty dollars for
transportation of servant when I paid
no such sum.”
“Then htyv’re you to get your money
hack?—the dimes and dollars you’ve
given to porters and waiters on the
way? Every officer I know would sign
that certificate without question, and
every quartermaster would pay it.
Capt. -Warren came with you to head
quarters, at least. What d’you bet he
hasn’t drawn servant’s transportation ?
You think it over, lieutenant. There’s
no sense in you robbin’ yourself this
way. Write down to barracks, ’f you
like, and see what they say at head
quarters. They’ll tell you just what
I do.”
“I’ll sign the accounts without that,
and get the mileage for myself,” said
Lambert. “I need the money. Then
if it’s allowable and proper I can col
lect for servant later.”
“Not much you can’t. There’s where
you show your ignoraftce. Then the
government would make you fight ten
years for it, even, if you’d brought a
servant with you. The way is to get
it first and let them stop it if it’s wrong.
But here, I can’t fool away time ar
guin’ simple thing like that. I’ve got
to be miles away before midnight, and,
no- matter who comes and inquires,
you don’t know where we’ve gone. Now
you won’t need any commissary funds
or anything while I’m away. Just
pay cash and take receipts if you buy
vegetables for the company.”
“You forget, sir, that my money’s
gone.”
“Sure you hadn’t anything but what
was in that pocketbook? Then, ser
geant, you do it, and keep account.”
“But, excuse me, captain,” said Lam
bert, flushiug, “I myself will need
money. I must find some place to
board. Keep those mileage accounts
as security, if you like, but let me have
twenty dollars—”
“But you hain’t signed them; they’re
no good.”
“I’ll settle that,” said Lambert, sharp
ly; and, taking a pen, he drew a line
through the item for transportation for
servant and altered the figures of the
total accordingly, then, stall standing
and bending over the desk, slashed his
signature with a sputtering pen upon
the paper. Close carefully scrutinized
the sheet, compared it with its dupli
cate when that, too, was similarly fin
ished, and stowed both away in a long
envelope. “Sure you’ve got to have
twenty?” he asked, as a soldier stuck
his head inside the tent door, retired
precipitately at sight of the junior lieu
tenant, and then, from without, an
nounced that the captain was served.
“Well, I guess I can get it for you—
before I go.” Slowly he finished, slowly
signed, after close study of their con
tents, the papers placed before him,
then slowly left the tent without an
other word. Not until he had buckled
on his pistol belt—he carried no sword
—and was about to start with his silent
and yawning squad, did he seem to wake
from his -fit of abstraction, and then
only when Lambert appealed to him
for orders.
“Oh, yes. well, just have an eye on
them mules, will you, lieutenant?
Everything else, almost, is under lock
and key. The quartermaster sergeant
is pretty solid.”
“But in case of disturbance, or de
mands for more detachments, or men
wanting to go away?”
“There won't be nuthin' now fur a
week. Do’s you like about givin’ the
men a little liberty. They’ve had a
good deal. Everything around here will
be quiet enough, and you'll hear what
I’m after—well, when I’ve got it.”
That night, though worn and weary
and downhearted, Lambert could hard
ly sleep. At 11 the little detachment
had trudged away into the blackness
of the night, and the tramp of their
march was swallowed up in the rustle
of the crisp brown foliage and the creak
of overhanging branches. The men re
maining tn camp crawled back to their
blankets; the oaok fire smoldered away,
only occasionally whirling forth a re
luctant flight of*sparks in response to
some vigorous puff of the restless wind;
the sentry yawned and dawdled about
the wagon und the store tent; even the
mules seemed so sympathetic with their
recovered associate that no whisper of
a bray came from their pen on the bank
of the stream. Lambert had received
the assurance of his sergeant that the
missing men would surely turn up be
fore breakfast on the morrow, and had
given permission to that harassed and
evidently disgusted official to go to bed.
Then, after a turn around his sleeping
camp, the young fellow went to his
lonely roost “to think things over.”
In the first place, as he lighted his
candle, there was the tin pail which had
rolled out from the Walton hedge row,
and which, on inspection, he had found
to contain, about two pounds of fresh
butter, very neatly packed In lettuce
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I WANT
7\ AND N° OTHER.
SkH.SEE?
To« will lit one tnpn
iMMt Nth two nan fc«|,
•a* two osafau Inside each
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well’s Durham. Bajr a lag
ot this celebrated tobacco
«at read the oonpon which
■*▼•8 a list of rateable prw
—ts and how to set them.
leaves. That proved that the Waltons
still bad something' of their old garden
left. Lettuce could surely be raised
only under glass at this inclement sea
son. He had .hitherto hod no time for
close'inspection. of the contents. Now
as he turned over the leaves he found a
little slip of paper on which, in a girlish
and somewhat “scratchy” hand, were
penned the words: “Please send small
currency. It’s hard to get change. You
can have buttermilk to-morrow night if
you’ll bring a pitcher. Due, $5.10. You
must pay it this time. I must have It.”
“Now, who on earth is this young
lady’s customer?” thought Lambert.
“Surely not Close. He never spends a
cent on butter. Nobody else lives nearer
than Parmelee’s to the north or town
to the south. Can it be that some of the
sergeants have been buying supplies
from this quarter and running up a but
ter bill ?’’ Burns had spoken of trouble
between the captain and the old lady,
and of ail hands being forbidden to
enter the Walton grounds on any pre
text whatever. That, of course, did not
prohibit the men from buying what the
Walton servants offered for sale outside
the fence, and if they were so straitened
in circumstances they might be glad to
find a market for their supplus produce
even among the Yankee invaders, pro
vided Mme. Walton were kept in ignor
ance of the traffic. She was uncom
promising. No intercourse with, no
recognition of, the barbarians, was her
rule to kith and kin, and the few negroes
who still hung about the crumbling old
place repeated her words with the fear
born of long-continued discipline under
her roof and rod in the days of their en
forced and unquestioning servitude.
These and other items of information
as to his surroundings the young lieu
tenant had obtained from Sergt. Burns
in the course of their evening watch to
gether. He had no other means of
studying the situation, and was butane
of many new and comparatively inex
perienced officers thrown upon their
own resources at isolated posts among
“the states lately in rebellion.” Not yet
24 hours on duty with his company, he
had been ordered to proceed with an
armed force to the succor of officers of
law supposabiy besieged by a rebellious
mob, and now, at midnight, in the heart
of a strange country and. for from the
heart of its people he was commanding
officer of his company and camp, with
out definite instructions of any kind'
and only his native common sense to
guide him.
Lambert has since told two women
—his wife and his mother—how his
thoughts wandered back to the peace
ful old homestead in the far northland,
and to the teachings of his boyhood
days. He made a sturdy fight against
the feeling of loneliness that oppressed
him. He wished the wind did not blow
so sulkily, in such spiteful, vicious
puffs. It seemed as though nature had
combined with old Lady Walton to give
him ungracious welcome to this par
ticularly shady side of the sunny south.
The wind itself was whispering sarcas
tic and withering remarks to him, like
those the sergeant repeated as coming
from Madam Walton to the defenseless
captain; and even Burns’ sense of sub
ordination could not down his impulse
to chuckle over some of them. What
would Lambert do or say if the prim
and starchy dame were to call upon
him, as she occasionally hod on his su
perior, driving him at last to the refuge
of the nethermost depths of his tent,
whence, os Burns declared, “the cap
tain couldn’t be induced to come out
till the old lady was back inside her
own door?”
The last time he “tied up Biggs”—
a punishment much resorted to in the
rough war days and those that closely
followed thetgi, especially by those offi
cers who were themselves graduated
from the ranks or the volunteers—it
was for trespass on the Walton place.
The fellow had climbed the fence and
was pilfering among the old fruit trees
when caught by Madam Walton. That
was bad enough, but he had been im
pudent to her, which was worse. The
men themselves would probably have
ducked him in the stream—the old,
self-respecting soldiers, that is—had the
captain not ordered his summary pun
ishment. Lambert was wondering
what steps he should take in the inter
ests of discipline, when he finally blew
out his candle, determined, if a possible
thing, to get to sleep. It was just a
quarter-past 12 when he wound his
watch and stowed it under his rude
pillow. His revolver, the day’s pur
chase, lay, with some matches, close at
hand. He had even placed his sword
and belt at the foot of hia cot. The
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