Faye Started On The
Next Stage To Helena And At Dillon Will Take The Cars For Washington.
Faye went away the night before the entertainment, which made it
impossible for me to be in the pantomime "Villikens and Dinah," so
little Miss Gordon took my place and acted remarkably well,
notwithstanding she had rehearsed only twice.
The very stage that
carried Faye from the post, brought to us Mr. Hughes of Benton for a
few days. But this turned out very nicely, for Colonel and Mrs. Mills,
who know him well, were delighted to have him go to them, and there he
is now. The next day I invited Miss Mills and Mr. Hughes to dine with
me informally, and while I was in the dining room attending to the few
pieces of extra china and silver that would be required for dinner (a
Chinaman has no idea of the fitness of things), Volmer, our striker,
came in and said to me that he would like to take the horses and the
single buggy out for an hour or so, as he wanted to show them to a
friend.
I saw at once that he and I were to have our usual skirmish. There is
one, always, whenever Faye is away any length of time. The man has a
frightful temper, and a year ago shot and killed a deserter. He was
acquitted by military court, and later by civil court, both courts
deciding that the shooting was accidental. But the deserter was a
catholic and Volmer is a quaker, so the feeling in the company was so
hostile toward him that for several nights he was put in the
guardhouse for protection.
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