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Moreover, the paymaster was coming, which overshadowed all minor considerations, and Turner was to take twenty men and meet him midway over to McDowell, and could have taken fifty had volunteers been called for, and the garrison to a man would have offered to sally forth, "with mattock and with spade" to patch up the crazy road that twisted through Picacho Pass anything to get the man and his money to Camp Almy, for "devil a cent of four months' pay had the garrison, and more than double that," said Sergeant Malloy, "is owin' me in I.O.U.'s that they wouldn't take for a treat at the store."
Respect and regret intermingled were in tone and word as in his answer, all unwittingly, Malloy furnished the missing motive for 'Tonio's crime: "It wasn't one of the men, sir. It was Lieutenant Lieutenant Willett." Then for a moment there was another silence. Bonner, Briggs and Strong exchanged quick glances.
We've jest ben loafin' along. Git ready to tear the air, you rooters!" Kelly hit a wonderfully swift ball through the infield. Bo batted out a single. Malloy got up in the way of one of Frank's pitches, and was passed to first base. Then, as the Natchez crowd opened up in shrill clamor, the impending disaster fell. Dundon hit a bounder down into the infield.
With all its matter-of-fact, nonchalant ease of manner during the few hours under fire, the personnel of Camp Almy, officer and man, had been subjected to something of a strain night and day for nearly a week, and now was ready to turn in and sleep, but Archer and those with him were convinced that in Sergeant Malloy there lived a witness who, better even than Lieutenant Harris, could throw light on 'Tonio's singular and inexplicable behavior.
"I'll go if it's the last thing I do," she said. "You can save your breath." The car was all but empty. The girl sat staring, dry-eyed, straight before her. A dirty old woman, seeing the set face and blood-stained dress, leaned eagerly across the aisle. "Has the young lady been hurt?" she wheezed. "None of your business," said Miss Malloy. And the old woman subsided at this shaft of plain truth.
Malloy was the least disturbed; so decidedly so that General Hume eyed him quizzically. "Fine bunch of hallucinations, doctor." "Almost commonplace," retorted Malloy.
Martie was not surprised when Rose merrily confided to her that Rod wanted his wife to go along the silly! and accompanied them on the short drive. She did not see much of the young Parkers after that, nor did she expect to be counted among their intimate friends. She began to drift into the public kindergarten in the mornings, to help Miss Malloy with the unruly babies.
The cause of the latter's absence was soon made clear to him in a note he found waiting for him at the hotel: "The old man has just sent me out on hurry-up orders. Don't know when I'll get back. Suggest you take in the show at the opera house to-night to pass the time." It was the last sentence that caught Bucky's attention. Jim Malloy had not written it except for a reason.
It was the landlady's daughter, attended by a cavalier in the person of a stolid young man of German extraction, as I thought at first glance, and this was confirmed by Blister's, "Let me make you acquainted with Miss Malloy," and "Shake hands with Mister Shultz." Then began the by no means unskilful playing of one lover against the other.
The Second South Carolina was in front, then the Third, Seventh, Fifteenth, Third Battalion, and Eighth on extreme right, the brigade marching left in front. Chesley W. Herbert, Co. Theodore F. Malloy, Co. John W. Wofford, Co. John Hampden Brooks, Co.
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