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Canker's cheeks burned as he recalled how often he had permitted Gleason to defame Ray. Crane and Wilkins hung their heads and tugged at their stubby beards, and looked uncomfortable, for the whole tenor of talk was an enthusiastic and vehement vote of confidence in the Kentuckian.
Gleason asked us in to have a lemonade on our way from drill. You know the ladies often go, Jack." "I know some of them do, Gracie." "Ought we not to have gone I mean, ought I not to have gone? for Marion would not. Indeed, Jack, the moment I saw she had not come in I left at once. Was it are you vexed?" "There's no great harm done, dear.
Squire Woodbridge an Ginral Ashley an Doctor Sergeant, Cap'n Jones an schoolmaster Gleason, an a slew more o' the silk stockins be a goin' tew." "Are you going to murder them?" exclaimed the frantic woman. "Wal," drawled Meshech, "that depends. Ef govment hangs any o' our fellers wat they've got in jail, we're gonter hang yewr husban' an the res' on em, sure's taxes.
I owe you this explanation, colonel, but trust you will consider it confidential." Whaling looked greatly discomposed but unquestionably interested. He eyed Gleason sharply and took it all in without a word. "I thought some of his letters might have been from Leavenworth," said Gleason, after a pause.
She winced at the professional technicalities, but wrote a hurried despatch, care of the Rocky Mountain Detective Agency, enjoining him to come to them at once; breathing no word of reproach or blame, but telling him that his letters were now in Ray's hands, and they felt that he bitterly regretted the part he had taken in connection with Gleason.
In conversation with Billings last night he admitted that he, too, had heard that Ray had been playing fast and loose at Kansas City, and when I asked him how it was brought to him, he replied that Wayne told him, and Wayne had a letter from Gleason.
Gleason has arrived at the top of the hill and she will take charge of you young ladies. I am glad none of you is hurt." The overturned crew hauled their bobsled out of the drift. Linda Riggs went on with her friends, dragging the Gay Girl. "I'd like to hear what that fat man has to say about Sherwood's father," the ill-natured girl murmured to Cora Courtney, her room-mate.
Gleason as murdered, but that he should have been murdered in cold blood, without a word of altercation, and murdered by an officer of his own regiment, one so brave, so gifted, so popular as Ray, was simply horrible; and yet who that heard the evidence being given, slowly, reluctantly, painfully before that jury could arrive at any other conclusion.
But it was a blow to Gleason. Within forty-eight hours it brought other telegraphic orders from division headquarters to send Lieutenant Gleason at once to Fort Fetterman, to join his regiment at the earliest possible moment. There was visible rejoicing in the garrison.
It was a blissful evening, and all too short, for the doctor simply ended it by wheeling Ray home at nine o'clock and putting him to bed. For two days more he was incessantly up the row in his wheeled chair. Twice Gleason saw him tête-
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