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He was very sorry, but for several reasons he was compelled to refuse all applications to see Mr. Ray until the morrow. Mrs. Stannard in her indignation could hardly find words to thank Mr. Warner for the courtesy he personally displayed in the matter. She sent a servant to the corporal of the guard to ask him to say to Mr.
Stannard, hastily kissing Lilian's pale and tear-wet cheek, started to follow, but through the little knots of soldiery a strange figure came forcing a way, a lithe Apache on resentful mule 'Tonio, already back from the front, a little folded paper in his hand. Lashing the obstinate brute he bestrode, 'Tonio dove straight at the general, and all men waited to learn the tidings.
"Sergeant Fitzroy, sir," came the answer, with a doleful whine, "just before the third relief, at half-past eleven." "No time to see the colonel now!" said Ennis. "Major Stannard, I've got to gallop into town, but a dozen men, if need be, should trail that sleigh." "Go it, boy," was the instant answer, "and I'm behind you."
Every man felt that Billings had given him the right to expect to be told all about it when the colonel came. Some looked reproachfully at Billings, as though to remind him of their expectations: Stannard, his old stand-by, passed him with a gruff "Thought you said the colonel had something to tell us," and went out with an air of injured and defrauded dignity.
Stannard had thrust his head forward and his hands into his breeches-pockets. "Now, isn't that simply damnable?" he asked. "You do not believe Ray guilty, do you?" was Truscott's response. "No, I don't," though there was hesitating accent on the don't. Stannard hated to be thought unprepared for any trait in a fellow-man good or bad. "What can the charges be?
And it was plain that Stannard was getting excited. An officer came through the gloom. It was Captain Webb. "Isn't this Gleason's tent?" called the major. "Certainly. I left him there not half an hour ago," replied the captain. "Wake him up. He's got to go back in the morning." "Yes, sir. And that's just what I want to see him about. Hullo! you there! Gleason!"
Stannard, with fluttering heart. "You've lost something of your mustache and eyebrows, but very little of your good looks. Only " "Only what?" "Why, it's going to be so much harder to see her now than it was before before she " and Mrs. Stannard faltered. "Before she saw me playing Saint Somebody or other at the back window, and screamed? Nobody knows I heard it except you, and you won't tell.
Stannard read aloud a spirited, stirring paragraph, describing a dash led by Lieutenant Lanier, and then Sumter made a swoop for all three pages and said, "The quicker Button can see these the sooner he'll come to his senses," and begging pardon for the rudeness, took the papers and his leave and almost collided with Kate, who at sound of the name and the glad ring of the voices had crept down-stairs for the news.
I beg your pardon and I ask your friendship." For a moment, silence, then for answer came but the single word: "Hermano." When presently hands unclasped and others began to gather about him, it was seen as Stannard came forward he had linked his arm in that of Harris, and would not be denied. The general caught sight of them, and a smile like sunshine lighted up his beaming face.
Miss Stannard is at present a pupil in one of the best educational establishments in Santa Clara, where she is receiving tuition in er the English classics, foreign belles lettres, embroidery, the harp, and er the use of the er globes, and er blackboard under the most fastidious care, and my own personal supervision.
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