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Updated: May 20, 2025
Tell him people are talking; tell him it won't be long before they'll be talking in Washington. Scare him!" The captain of cavalry smiled dubiously. "Aintree's a hard man to scare," he said. "But if it's as bad as you all seem to think, I'll risk it. But, why is it," he complained, "that whenever a man has to be told anything particularly unpleasant they always pick on his best friend to tell him?
Until he was sure his voice would be steady and official, the boy lieutenant did not speak. "Did he hit the negro?" he asked. "I don't know," Meehan answered. "The man jumped for the darkest spot he could find." The voice of Meehan lost its professional calm and became personal and aggrieved. "Aintree's on his way to see you now, lieutenant. He's going to report me." "For what?"
He said further that since he had arrived on the isthmus he had heard only of Aintree's misconduct, that soon the War Department would hear of it, that Aintree would lose his commission, would break the backbone of a splendid career. "It's a friend talking," continued Haldane, "and you know it! It's because I am your friend that I've risked losing your friendship!
It was Aintree's record and as the number of black crosses grew, the greater had grown the resentment of Standish, the more greatly it had increased his anger against the man who had put this affront upon the army, the greater became his desire to punish.
To these men with the world waiting upon the outcome of their endeavor, with responsibilities that never relaxed, Aintree's behavior was an incident, an annoyance of less importance than an overturned dirt train that for five minutes dared to block the completion of their work.
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