Part 18 (2/2)
Captain Graha He said it was a shaeneral about it At guard-mount, when I was not summoned, I sent word to Captain Graham that I wanted to see General Bankhead He sent back word that the general refused to have anything to do with me
As it was impossible to send word to General Carr, I determined to send a dispatch direct to General Sheridan I wrote out a long telegra hiraph office for transmission the operator refused to send it at once
Instead he showed it to General Bankhead, who tore it up When no reply cauard, and learned fro friend,” said I, ”this is a public telegraph line
I want ram sent, or there'll be trouble”
He knew very well it was his duty to send the dispatch I rewrote it and gave it to him, with the money to pay for it But before he made any effort to transmit it he called on General Bankhead and infor that the dispatch would have to go through, the general sent for o, sir, will you leave the Post at once and not bother anyone at Sheridan?” he de of the kind I'll reet an answer froive you your horse and mule will you proceed at once to Fort Lyon?”
”No, sir; I have some bills to settle at Sheridan and some other business to transact”
”Well, sir, will you at least proent at Sheridan?”
”I shall not trouble him any more, sir I have had all I want from him”
General Bankhead thereupon sent for Captain Laufer and ordered him to turn the horse and mule over tosettledthere two days afterward I related my adventures to General Carr, Major Brown, and the other officers, ere highly amused thereby
CHAPTER VI
When I returned to General Carr's command after eneral had been waiting for lad you've coeneral ”While we've been at this Post a number of valuable animals have been stolen, as well as many Government horses and mules We think the thieves are still near the fort Fresh tracks have been found near Fort Lyon Perhaps Bill Green, the scout who has been up there, can tell you so for Green, I found that he had marked the place where he had lost the trail of the , accompanied by Green, Jack Farley, and another scout, I set out after the horse-thieves
Whileaway from the spot where Green discovered theht horses--in the edge of the sandhills
Fro them down to the Arkansas River This stream they had followed toward Denver, whither they were undoubtedly bound
When we got within four miles of Denver we found that the thieves had passed four days before I concluded that they had decided to dispose of the ani auction day there, so ent to a hotel outside the town to await that day I was too well known in the city to show myself there, for the thieves would have taken alarm had they learned ofwe rode into the city and stabled our animals at the Elephant Corral I secured a roo the corral, and took up a post of observation I did not have to wait long
A nized at once as Willia,another Government mule This mule had been recently branded, and over the ”US” a plain ”D B” had been stamped
As the man's confederate did not appear I decided he was outside with the rest of the stolen animals