By-and-by the captain got tired of trying, and gave up the attempt--just devoted himself to her--and then we was transferred, all but him.

We shifted to a better post, but Captain Jefferson was changed to another company and had to stay at Supply.

Gee! it was a rotten hole! Influence had been used, and there he stuck, while the new officers cut him out completely, just like the others had done, so I was told, and it drifted on that way for a long time, him forever makin' an uphill fight to get his wife reco'nized and always quittin' loser.

His folks back East was scandalized and froze him cold, callin' him a squaw-man; and the story went all through the army, till his brother officers had to treat him cold in order to keep enough warmth at home to live by, one thing leading to another till he finally resented it openly.

After that he didn't last long.