The Californian, 1881, Vol. 4
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Excerpt from The Californian, 1881, Vol. 4: A Western Monthly Magazine Let me confess, dear Edith, that, next to a woman with a history, I abhor a woman who faints; though my own experience has been that we cannot in all cases escape either the one affliction or the other, no matter how hard we try. I know, at least, that when Toby had drawn his last breath, I tried my best not to succumb to the numbness I felt creeping over all my senses after the first storm of grief had passed. But I cannot remember, for the life of me, how I got back to Sergeant Brown´s adobe house. The first thing I remember was the Lieutenant´s haggard face bending over me, and most unexpectedly his protestations of affection, repentance, and reform were as profuse as they had been on the night preceding my departure from Fort Bayard. He needed my sympathy, he said, and my aid; for we must now proceed to Santa Fe: it was almost a matter of life and death with him, an officer under arrest, to escape from camp and venture directly into the lion´s den - the Commanding Generals head-quarters. I was to assist him in denouncing to the General the constant and systematic annoyance and persecution to which he had been subjected by the other officers at the fort, and which had driven him to this step at last. To retort that I had seen and known nothing of these annoyances and persecutions would have been of no benefit to me or the gentlemen in question; whereas, the prospect of going to Santa Fe instead of returning to Fort Bayard held out at least a faint hope for me. So on toward Santa Fe we proceeded the next day; and no devoted lover, no model husband, could have been more attentive and affectionate. The trouble was that he was too attentive; so completely enveloping me, as it were, that not even to Pinkow could I speak a word, either in public or in private. From Albuquerque the Lieutenant was wise enough to send back the escort; it would hardly have been advisable to enter the presence of the District Commander with flying colors. As it was, the ambulance alone attracted immediate attention as it rolled through the narrow, crooked streets of Santa Fe; and we had barely entered the old fonda near the Plaza, when an orderly of the Generals came to inquire what officer had arrived, and on what business? The Lieutenants trepidation was plain to me, though he forced himself to an air of bravado. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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