Late In The Afternoon
We Reached The Camp For The Night, And Still Faye Had Not Come And No
One Could Tell Me Anything About Him.
And I was very, very ill!
Doctor
Gordon was most kind and attentive, but neither he nor other friends
could relieve the pain in my heart, for I felt so positive that
something was wrong.
Just as our tent had been pitched Faye rode up, looking weary and
worried, said a word or two to me, and then rode away again. He soon
returned, however, and explained his long absence by telling me
briefly that he had gone back for the dog. But he was quiet and
distrait, and directly after dinner he went out again. When he came
back he told me all about everything that had occurred.
Under any circumstances, it would have been a dreadful thing for him
to have been absent from the command without permission, but when
officer of the day it was unpardonable, and to take the colonel's
horse with him made matters all the worse. And then the wagon master
was liable to have been called upon at any time, if anything had
happened, or the command had come to a dangerous ford. Faye told me
how they had gone back for the dog, and so on, and said that when he
first got in camp he rode immediately to the colonel's tent, turned
the horse over to an orderly, and reported his return to the colonel,
adding that if the horse was injured he would replace him.
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