Went A
Gun, And Then Again We Heard People Running About To See What Was The
Matter, And If The Burglar Had Been Caught.
But it proved to have been
the accidental going off of a rifle at the guardhouse.
The instant
that Colonel Gregory ascertained that a soldier had really been in
Mrs. Norton's house, check roll-call was ordered - that is, the officer
of the day went to the different barracks and ordered the first
sergeants to get the men up and call the roll at once, without warning
or preparation. In that way it was ascertained if the men were on
their cots or out of quarters. But that night every man was "present
or accounted for." At the hospital, roll-call was not necessary, but
they found an attendant playing possum! A lantern held close to his
face did not waken him, although it made his eyelids twitch, and they
found that his heart was beating at a furious rate. His clothes had
been thrown down on the floor, but socks were not to be found with
them.
So he is the man suspected.. He will get his discharge in three days,
and it is thought that he was after a suit of citizen clothes of the
doctor's. Not so very long ago he was their striker. No one in the
garrison has ever heard of an enlisted man troubling the quarters of
an officer, and it is something that rarely occurs. I spend every
night with Mrs. Norton now, who seems to have great confidence in my
ability to protect her, as I can use a revolver so well.
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