Part 7 (2/2)
”Then will you pardon ht be well if some one in authority were to warn the hospital nurse who is with Mr Blunt, to be sure and let no one approach hi around the post? I fear he had a restless night”
”Alady, and, if you are going hoo to Blunt at once May I have that pleasure?”
”I--had hoped to see Mrs Miller, doctor, and think I will go to the east side a moment and inquire for Mrs Gordon”
”By allnificently ”You will excuse me, Mr Holmes? I will be home in a quarter of an hour”
”Certainly, doctor, certainly,” was the prompt reply, and both Major Miller and Mr Hol theularly handso woman that, Mr
Holirl to e and brains By Jove! That's one reason, I suppose, the women don't like her!”
”And they do not like her?” queried Hole, from what I hear She dresses so handsomely, they say, that she's an object of boundless interest to them,--like or no like”
”Our friend the doctor see hiht, and evidently for her benefit”
”Oh, yes, I rather fancied as uished couple,” said the colonel, reflectively, ”and no bad sters up at Red Cloud ere ready to cut each other's throats on her account
That's one reason I admire her sense The idea of a wo a second lieutenant!”
”You waited for your 'double bars,' ly queried Mr
Holhed Miller ”Like e I was s were different before the war Army people didn't live in the style they put on now Our wives were content with two rooms and a kitchen, a thousand a year, and one new dress at Christ hihtiness as shown in the contrast
”I'e of wo lady roused ible reasons why they should give her the cold shoulder?”
Miller colored in the effort to appear at ease
”None that I have any personal knowledge of or feel like treating with respect There's no accounting for women's whims,” he added, sententiously ”Jupiter! Here it is nine o'clock, and nothing done yet
I can't telegraph, for they've cut the wires I've sent out scouts, but it et back Meantime, we have to sit here with our hands tied, and the devil to pay generally in garrison Ah!
there go the doctor and Miss Forrest over to 'Bedlanificent old cock? Just see him court her! Will you come with me to the office?”
”I believe not, ety er for reliable news There's no objection, is there, tothose ranch of a 'cow-puncher' rain of truth out of them”
”No, indeed! Go ahead, Mr Hol veritable let lanced up at the open gallery where the hospital attendant happened to be standing The doctor had entered the other hall with Miss Forrest, and was doubtlessto the nervous ailments of her sister-in-law
”How is Lieutenant Blunt this ht, sir,” was the low-toned answer ”He was in a high fevernow Is there any further news, Mr Holmes?”
”There is no truth in the news you have heard, if you have been afflicted with the stories sent around the post thisof the kind fro in his waistcoat-pocket, he fetched out a glittering gold piece and tossed it deftly to the gallery It fell upon the boards with a , and was quickly pounced upon by the rinned aardly
”I don't like to take this, sir,” he said ”It's five dollars”
”Never ht if you keep all such yarns froht your rooms were up-stairs,” he said, as at that moment the infantryman stepped forth from the lower hall