He is a fearless and just judge, and it is a wonder that
desperadoes have not killed him long ago.
Perhaps now I can have a little rest from the terrible fear that has
been ever with me day and night during the whole winter, that Oliver
would escape from the old jail and carry out his threat of double
murder. He had made his escape once, and I feared that he might get
out again. But that post and chain must have been very securely fixed
down in that cellar.
FORT LYON, COLORADO TERRITORY,
June, 1874.
BY this time you have my letter telling you that the regiment has been
ordered to the Department of the Gulf. Since then we have heard that
it is to go directly to Holly Springs, Mississippi, for the summer,
where a large camp is to be established. Just imagine what the
suffering will be, to go from this dry climate to the humidity of the
South, and from cool, thick-walled adobe buildings to hot, glary tents
in the midst of summer heat! We will reach Holly Springs about the
Fourth of July. Faye's allowance for baggage hardly carries more than
trunks and a few chests of house linen and silver, so we are taking
very few things with us. It is better to give them away than to pay
for their transportation such a long distance.
Both horses have been sold and beautiful King has gone. The young man
who bought him was a stranger here, and knew absolutely nothing about
the horse except what some one in Las Animas had told him.
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