 Ballantine, however, is due to muster out of the army in a few days; Weed orders Sgt.Higginbotham, disliked by both MacChesney and Cutter, to join the expedition as Ballantine's replacement.Once he is discharged, Ballantine plans to wed Emmy Stebbins and go into the tea business, a combined calamity that MacChesney and Cutter consider worse than death.