Captain Vincent Said It Was Entirely The Fault Of
The Commanding Officer For Permitting Such A Disgraceful Order To
Leave His Office; That Captain Park's Family Could Have Remained One
Night Longer In Tents Here, As They Had Been In Camp Every Night On
The Road From Fort Sill.
There came a ludicrous turn to all this unpleasantness, for, by the
ranking out of one junior second lieutenant, six or more captains and
first lieutenants had to move.
It was great fun the next day to see
the moving up and down the officers' line of all sorts of household
goods, for it showed that a poor second lieutenant was of some
importance after all!
But I am getting on too fast. Faye, of course, was entitled to two
rooms, some place in the post, but it seems that the only quarters he
could take were those occupied by Lieutenant Cole, so Faye decided at
once to go into tents himself, in preference to compelling Lieutenant
Cole to do so. Now it so happened that the inspector general of the
department was in the garrison, and as soon as he learned the
condition of affairs, he ordered the post quartermaster to double two
sets of quarters - that is, make four sets out of two - and designated
the quartermaster's own house for one of the two. But Major Knox
divided off two rooms that no one could possibly occupy, and in
consequence has still all of his large house. But the other large set
that was doubled was occupied by a senior captain, who, when his
quarters were reduced in size, claimed a new choice, and so,
turning another captain out, the ranking out went on down to a second
lieutenant.
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