But it all matters little to me now,
since it was not found necessary to take me to a lunatic asylum!
Mrs. Rae saw in a paper that Faye had been shot by a desperado, and
was naturally much alarmed, so she sent a telegram to learn what had
happened, and in reply Faye telegraphed for her to come out, and
fearing that he must be very ill she left Boston that very night. But
we understood that she would start the next day, and this
misinterpretation caused my undoing - that and the sand storm.
That man Oliver has at last been arrested and is now in the jail at
Las Animas, chained with another man - a murderer - to a post in the
dark cellar. This is because he has so many times threatened the
jailer. He says that some day he will get out, and then his first act
will be to kill the keeper, and the next to kill Lieutenant Rae. He
also declares that Faye kicked him when he was in the guardhouse at
the post. Of course anyone with a knowledge of military discipline
would know this assertion to be false, for if Faye had done such a
thing as that, he might have been court-martialed.
The sheriff was actually afraid to make the arrest the first time he
went over, because so many of Oliver's friends were in town, and so he
came back without him, although he saw him several times.
