A TROOPER GALAHAD
BY CAPTAIN CHARLES KING, U.S.A.
AUTHOR OF "THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER," "MARION'S FAITH," "CAPTAIN BLAKE," "UNDER FIRE," "FROM SCHOOL TO BATTLE-FIELD," ETC.
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A TROOPER GALAHAD
CHAPTER I.
"Life is full of ups and downs," mused the colonel, as he laid on the littered desk before him an official communication just received from Department Head-Quarters, "especially army life,--and more especially army life in Texas."
"Now, what are you philosophizing about?" asked his second in command, a burly major, glancing over the top of the latest home paper, three weeks old that day.
"D'ye remember Pigott, that little cad that was court-martialled at San Antonio in '68 for quintuplicating his pay accounts? He married the widow of old Alamo Hendrix that winter. He's worth half a million to-day, is running for Congress, and will probably be on the military committee next year, while here's Lawrence, who was judge advocate of the court that tried him, gone all to smash." And the veteran officer commanding the --th Infantry and the big post at Fort Worth glanced warily along into the adjoining office, where a clerk was assorting the papers on the adjutant's desk.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Trooper Galahad by Charles King
- 2: Buxton and Canker be exterminated
- 3: Dull hued barracks on one side or on two
- 4: But what are brevets but empty title
- 5: The detachment led by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence
- 6: Frazier turned appealingly to Brooks
- 7: In spite of what Colonel Frazier could say
- 8: Lieutenant Hodge by title and name
- 9: That man was Galbraith Barclay
- 10: Then Winn was assigned to duty
- 11: Officers had taken to consulting Barclay
- 12: All this and more did Hodge tell of Barclay
- 13: This gave Hodge unlooked for reinforcements
- 14: No solitaire ear rings or handsome crape
- 15: Hodge fairly seemed to sparkle
- 16: And Hodge poured forth his latest news
- 17: Winn doesn't like old times too well
- 18: Nothing but an emergency could have brought Riggs
- 19: And the devil to pay if Winn cannot
- 20: De Lancy should be so anxious to know
- 21: De Lancy explained in extenuation of their blindness
- 22: Winn and Captain Barclay in seeing what they would do
- 23: Miss Frazier and Miss Amanda Frazier
- 24: Amanda couldn't bear the doctor
- 25: I feel that Ada purposely shuns me
- 26: Barclay seated himself close to Ada's chair
- 27: Frazier was seated in plain view of the queenly creature who
- 28: Don't let us lose an instant of that waltz
- 29: The invoice was an actual and material fact
- 30: Where Barclay had bought his horses
- 31: And to let Winn off on several others
- 32: To hear such ill tidings about Harry Winn
- 33: While poor Winn has only enemies
- 34: Even Frazier and Brooks did not know
- 35: Greatly did Follansbee and Fellows congratulate Bronson
- 36: Winn had disappeared within her hall
- 37: Mullane stood ready to bear the subaltern's challenge
- 38: Once or twice Brayton heard him moving about
- 39: Brayton was keenly aware of her many extravagances
- 40: That Mullane was manifestly in his glory
- 41: For Mullane was struggling to come to the steps
- 42: And Brayton started almost as though stung
- 43: While Mullane and Fellows declared Sir Galahad a crank
- 44: Wonder if Barclay knows these mines
- 45: And I think Colonel Frazier should know at once
- 46: Asked Frazier from his casement
- 47: But what Frazier wanted and Brooks wanted and everybody
- 48: Then fall back and range himself alongside Mullane
- 49: But even to Mullane the major would not speak discourteously
- 50: Then Mullane tries another tack
- 51: And Mullane had been a gallant trooper
- 52: Cramer is in a scrape somewhere out in the Range
- 53: And Brooks and his men jogged on
- 54: Yet Blarney had never a scratch
- 55: He had been picked off by lurking bushwackers of the outlaws
- 56: Where flankers were at all possible
- 57: For Mullane knew most of the country thoroughly
- 58: A corporal from the camp on the Rio San Saba
- 59: With Captain Haines from the San Saba
- 60: Riddling the ambulance at the first volley
- 61: Frazier sent for young Brayton
- 62: And Frazier rode back vaguely relieved
- 63: And the Misses Frazier had even hinted
- 64: Frazier and the Misses Frazier sending such loads of things
- 65: Frazier promptly precipitated herself into the doorway again
- 66: And I'll say so to Colonel Frazier this very night
- 67: And Winn had to twist and turn
- 68: But Winn was eager to reach home
- 69: A beautiful stream was the Blanca within its mountain gates
- 70: And had ordered coffee to be ready at reveille
- 71: Winn clasped to her heaving breast
- 72: De Lancy turned and slammed shut the door
- 73: That Winn was now in close arrest
- 74: Both Frazier and Brooks thought something ought to be done
- 75: He and Brooks and Blythe sat half an hour with Winn
- 76: Mullane was a gallant soldier in the field
- 77: Captain Mullane had been on sick report four days
- 78: Mullane thirsted for the coming meeting
- 79: Laura could not stand wakeful nights
- 80: It couldn't be that Winn was weakening
- 81: But Winn was having another trouble now
- 82: Both the Frazier girls had been led
- 83: Into this heaving flood leaped Winn
- 84: And Frazier had to say that that
- 85: Being the tragedy of the korosko
- 86: In Lippincott's Series of Select Novels
- 87: Fawcett is admirably equipped to write of life in New York
- 88: By LOUIS BECKE AND WALTER JEFFERY
- 89: Willard was formerly an actress
- 90: Molesworth for giving them this pure