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With him were Cranston and Davies; with him, too, were Hay and Hastings. Only one officer of the Eleventh remained at Scott, the captain of "A" Troop, in arrest awaiting trial. It was a time of sore anxiety to wives and children, to some two or three sweethearts who had happened there, and they showed it plainly. It was a time of strange suspense and trouble to Captain Devers, but he hid it well.
Captain Devers, relieved at last from command of the post and overshadowed by vague sense of official condemnation, was now, in hopeful imitation of the Homeric Achilles, sulking in his tent.
There was that still unexplained something hanging over Davies's head, but as yet he knew nothing of it, had never heard of the allegations so vehemently, volubly laid at his door when Captain Devers had his own portals to clear. Nor was the latter now given to faintest reference to the matter. This at first glance may seem inconsistent, yet has its explanation.
"Captain Devers," said he, "I am directed by the post commander to read to you this despatch: "'COMMANDING OFFICER, FORT SCOTT: "'Notify Captain Devers that his letters have been received, and that the court for his trial will convene not later than the fifteenth instant. "'By command of General ."
"What I mean," said Devers, "is simply this: that just so long as we have to appeal to an infantry staff officer I can never get my stables whitewashed." "We-l-l," said Mr.
An officer had talked of challenging Devers in by-gone days when vestiges of the code still lingered, but Blake scouted the idea. "The only pistol he can fight with is the epistle," said Blake. So Blake was another detestation of Devers, and doubtless for good reason.
The grave, dignified, soldierly chief of staff appeared at the court-room door with a telegraphic despatch in his twitching fingers. "Gentlemen," said he, "your services in this case will not be needed. The accused is beyond our jurisdiction." There was a moment of intense silence, a look as of awe on many a face, then came the question from one who knew not Devers: "Killed himself?" "No!
Every day for a week something was amiss, and, having gone to the length of his own tether, Devers took to saying that it was all Mr. Davies's fault or Sergeant Somebody's, "Mr. Davies had just joined and was utterly inexperienced."
Devers explained that as a civilian he had no interest in the proceedings and could not be required to obey the mandate of a purely military court, a view in which the judiciary of the great republic, ever steadfast in the principle that military must be subservient to the civil power, virtually sustained him.
"Howard has been away all day, since guard-mounting, in fact, and no report was made of it. Devers has been notified that the colonel would investigate matters the whole business, in fact early to-morrow." But who can tell what a day may bring forth?
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