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whose authority should extend over the whole nation and that all sub-chiefs should obey him and that they surrender the murderer as soon as they could catch him. Reports were required of every officer who had ever had a separate command for even ten minutes, and ? those who had left stations and their wives elsewhere in the territory began to test the bars of restraint and show anxiety to get away. My friend Sam was the first to escape on the 22d of November with Major Long? the Paymaster. Sam had received intelligence some time before that a daughter had begun life at Fort Stanton while her father? was running the chances of ending his own among the Navajos and then he would often comb his mustache and express his belief with certain emphatic embellishment that he would never see that daughter until she was grown up and married. So Sam was intrusted with despatches to the Head Quarters of the Department. At the end of the month 1st Lieut Gordon Granger arrived in a snow storm. Granger was a strong character unconventional to the limit of patience sometimes, but generous, brave and tender hearted. If there was any place where angels were reported to fear to tread, Granger was bound to hunt it up and stalk over it with jingling spurs and clanking sabre. One time years before when the country was first occupied there was a blood-thirsty man who insulted officers of the Army whenever they came in town and that it was dangerous to encounter him and that Granger going in one day with an orderly met the desperado. Granger was an excellent shot at birds and his orderly carried his shot gun loaded with buck and ball. The Mexican bully took special pains to attract Granger's attention?