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For a moment the only sound following her words was a gasp from Stewart. Hawe's face became transformed with a hideous amaze and joy. "Detained?" he whispered, craning his lean and corded neck. "How's thet?" "Stewart was drunk. He " With sudden passionate gesture of despair Stewart appealed to her: "Oh, Miss Hammond, don't! don't!
Stewart seemed kind of chokin', an' he seemed to hev been bewildered by the idee of Hawe's confrontin' you. "An' finally he burst out: 'But, man, think who it is! It's Miss Hammond! If you seen her, even if you was locoed or drunk, you you couldn't do it. "'Couldn't I? Wal, I'll show you damn quick. What do I care who she is? Them swell Eastern women I've heerd of them. They're not so much.
This successful manoeuvre completed, Wilson returned to Hawe's Shop, and on the 4th went into camp at New Castle ferry, in anticipation of certain operations of the Cavalry Corps, which were to take place while the Army of the Potomac was crossing to the south side of the James.
Price's house. Here he learned that the army had gone to the left toward Cold Harbor, so on the 2d of June he moved to Hawe's Shop. While Wilson was operating thus on the right, I had to cover with Gregg's and Torbert's divisions the crossing of the army over the Pamunkey River at and near Hanovertown.
Several dusty, tired horses stood with drooping heads and bridles down, their wet flanks attesting to travel just ended. "Wal, dog-gone it, Al, if there ain't Pat Hawe's hoss I'll eat it," exclaimed Stillwell. "What's Pat want here, anyhow?" growled Alfred. No one was in sight; but Madeline heard loud voices coming from the house. Stillwell dismounted at the porch and stalked in at the door.
This engagement, like that off the day before around Trevillian, was mostly fought dismounted by both sides, as had also been the earlier fights of the cavalry during the summer in the Wilderness, at Todd's Tavern, Hawe's Shop, and Matadequin Creek.
The most determined and obstinate efforts for success were now made on both sides, as the position at Hawe's Shop had become of very great importance on account of the designs of both Lee and Grant.
In the rush of her thought Madeline could not interpret the meaning of these things which seemed so strange at that moment. But they were portentous. Even as she was forming a reply to Hawe's speech she felt a chill creep over her. "Stewart detained me in the waiting-room," she said, clear-voiced as a bell. "But we were not alone all the time."
Which cowboy are you wantin' to arrest?" Hawe's manner altered. "Gene Stewart," he replied, curtly. "On what charge?" "Fer killin' a Greaser one night last fall." "So you're still harpin' on that? Pat, you're on the wrong trail. You can't lay that killin' onto Stewart. The thing's ancient by now.
The fight then became general, both sides, dismounted, stubbornly contesting the ground. Of the Confederates, General Butler's South Carolinians bore the brunt of the fight, and, strongly posted as they were on the south bank of the creek, held their ground with the same obstinacy they had previously shown at Hawe's Shop.
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