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"Er I hoped you felt like er taking a walk or something." "Thanks, Mr. Gleason. I am too busy to-day." "Well, shall we say to-morrow, then?" he persevered. "To-morrow I go riding with Mrs. Stannard." "Do you? What time? Perhaps I can arrange to take a gallop at the same hour. You've never ridden with me yet." "You will have to ask Mrs. Stannard. Now, Mr. Gleason, I must go back to my desk.
Truscott read without a word, and then stood there a moment earnestly thinking, his lips firmly set, a dark shadow settling on life forehead. The message was as follows: "Ray arrested. Horse board charges cooked up here by Gleason. Court ordered from Chicago. All staff or infantry officers. Make Gleason name authorities before regiment.
They had become acquainted on the steamer with a girl named Bessie Gleason and her mother. Carl Potzfeldt, a German sailing under false colors, claimed to be a friend of Bessie and her mother, but Jack, who was more than casually interested in the girl, was suspicious of this man. And his suspicions proved correct, for Potzfeldt had planned a daring trick.
"We'll bring you the news at once night or day!" exclaimed Tom, vigorously. As he and Jack walked out of the hospital, the latter remarked: "You seem to be a favorite there, all right, Tom, my boy. If we weren't such good chums I might be a bit jealous." "If you feel that way I'll drop Bessie Gleason a note!" suggested Tom, quickly. "Don't!" begged Jack. "I'll be good!"
"To save my brother I could," said Nellie simply. "I would do anything for him!" "I know you would," murmured Bessie. "But it would just be throwing yourself away!" exclaimed Jack, coming to the help of his chum, who was gazing helplessly at him in this new crisis. "Tell her, Mrs. Gleason," he went on, "that it is utterly impossible, even if the army authorities would let her.
There were three or four young benedicts with better halves in the far East, who had forgotten little of their dancing days, and not too much of their wooing, and there were lesser lights among the subs, and two or three captains still uncaught, and even one or two men of whom others spoke not too highly, like Craven, and "that man Gleason," to whom Blake would not speak at all.
If that were true, they had left as silently and mysteriously as they came, and only a corporal's guard remained. Had Gleason been intent on anything but the manner in which he could make his communication most public and significant, if not offensive, he would have noticed that both Turnbull and Loring were in riding dress.
Gleason, that his testimony is included in the Bryce Report, which should give Americans new insight into the value of this document."
Again, on the following morning, he presented himself with similar plea. This time the ladies begged to be excused. "Will you say to Miss Sanford that I would greatly like to see her a few minutes?" he persisted. And then Miss Sanford came to head of the stairs, no further. "What is it, Mr. Gleason? I cannot come down," she said, very civilly, but uncompromising for all that.
When he re-appeared in America he remained a while at Hartford, Conn., whence he went to Chicago in 1876. He has lived there since, working at teaching and composition, and acting as musical critic of the Chicago Tribune. An unusually gifted body of critics, dramatic, musical, and literary, has worked upon the Chicago newspapers, and Gleason has been prominent among them.
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