Christine Blashford
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Then Waller went forthwith to the quarters of the commander, and caught him still in conference with his quartermaster and the guard, four or five of the latter being grouped without.
The Major retired to his front room, where with Wilkins he received the doctor.
Major Flint, said Waller, those overcoats belong to Mr Hayes' stablemen, Pete and Krapow.
Will you order their immediate arrest?
I would, doctor, was the answer, but they are not at the coral.
We know how to account for the hoofbeats in the valley.
Those scoundrels have got nearly an hour's start, and we've nobody to send in chase.
Then it presently appeared that the post commander desired to continue conference with his staff officer, for he failed to invite the post surgeon to be seated.
Indeed, he looked up into the doctor's kindling eyes with odd mixture of impatience and embarrassment in his own, and the veteran practitioner felt the slight, flushed instantly, and with much auteur of manner, took prompt but ceremonious leave.
And when morning came and Fort Frayne awoke to another busy day, as if the excitements of the night gone by had not been enough for it, a new story went buzzing, with the first call for guard mount, about the garrison, and bigger even than yesterday the two details, in soldier silence, began to gather in front of the infantry quarters.
Major Flint had ordered sentries posted at the trader's home, with directions that Mrs.
Hay was not to be allowed outside her gate, and no one, man or woman, permitted to
to approach her from without, except by express permission of the post commander.
General Harney and Dan, the two best horses of the trader's stable, despite the presence of the sentry at the front, had been abstracted sometime during the earlier hours of the night, and later traced to the ford at Stabber's old camp, and with Pete and Krapow doubtless were gone.
That day the major wired to Omaha that he should be reinforced at once.
One half his little force, he said, was now mounted each day for guard, and the men couldn't stand it.
The general, of course, was in the field, but his chief of staff remained at headquarters, and was empowered to order troops from post to post within the limits of the department.
Flint hoped two more companies would come at once, and he did not care what post was denuded in his favour.
His, he said, was close to the Indian lands, separated from them in fact only by a narrow and fordable river.
The Indians were all on the warpath, and aware of his puny numbers, might be tempted at any moment to quit the mountains and concentrate on him.
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