Christine Blashford
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Chapter seventeen A Rifled Desk.
Events moved swiftly in the week that followed.
Particulars of the accident to General Field, however, were slow in reaching Fort Frayne, and to the feverish unrest and mental trouble of the son was now added a feverish anxiety on the father's account that so complicated the situation as to give Dr.
Waller grave cause for alarm.
Then it was that, ignoring every possible thought of misbehaviour on the part of the young officer toward the gentle girl so dear to them, not only Mrs.
Blake and Mrs.
Ray, but Mrs.
Dade herself insisted on being made of use, insisted on being permitted to go to his bedside, and there to minister, as only women can, to the suffering and distressed.
Waller thought it over and succumbed.
The lad was no longer delirious, at least, and if he revealed anything of what was uppermost in his mind, it would be a conscious and voluntary revelation.
There were some things he had said, and that Waller alone had heard, the good old doctor wished were known to certain others of the garrison, and to no one more than Mrs.
Dade, and so the prohibition against their visiting the wounded lad was withdrawn, and not only these but other women, sympathetically attracted, were
rights were given the necessary authority.
There was other reason for this.
From the commanding officer of the supply camp at Rock Springs had come, finally a letter that was full of foreboding.
General Field, it said, was sorely injured and might not survive.
If the department commander had only been at Omaha or Cheyenne, as the anxious father hastened to reach his son, the mishap would never have occurred.
The general would gladly have seen to it that suitable transportation from the railway to Frane was afforded his old time comrade, but in his absence Field shrank from appealing to anyone else, and threw the train conductor wired ahead to Rock Creek for a stout four mule team and wagon with a capable driver.
The conductor assured him that such things were to be had for money, and that everything would be in readiness on his arrival.
Team, wagon, and driver certainly were on hand, but the team looked rickety, so did the wagon, so did the driver, who had obviously been priming for the occasion.
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