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"Yes; and of course you took the main trail west from Leavenworth."
He nodded. "Orders to take this detachment out to Laramie," he said,
"and meet Colonel Meriwether there."
"He'll not be back?" I exclaimed in consternation. "I was hoping to meet
him coming east."
"No," said Belknap, "you'll have to go on with us if you wish to see
him. I'm afraid the Sioux are bad on beyond. Horrible thing your man
tells me about up there," he motioned toward the ruined station. "I'm
taking his advice and going into camp here, for I imagine it isn't a
nice thing for a woman to see."
He turned toward the ambulance, and I glanced that way. There stood near
it a tall, angular figure, head enshrouded in an enormous sunbonnet; a
personality which it seemed to me I recognized.
"Why, that's my friend, Mandy McGovern," said I. "I met her on the boat.
Came out from Leavenworth with you, I suppose?"
"That isn't the one," said Belknap. "No, I don't fancy that sister
McGovern would cut up much worse than the rest of us over that matter up
there; but the other one--"
At that moment, descending at the rear of the ambulance, I saw the other
one.
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HER INFINITE VARIETY
It was a young woman who left the step of the ambulance and stood for a
moment shading her eyes with her hand and looking out over the
shimmering expanse of the broad river.
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