To
do a thing - you would have known that, in all probability, that would
be the very thing she would do first!" That mollified him a little,
but we did not laugh - life had just been too serious for that.
The chaplain had joined us, and so had Lieutenant Alden. The fence I
had run to was the chaplain's, and when the good man saw us he came
out and assisted me to his house, where I received the kindest care
from Mrs. Lawton. I knew that Faye would be greatly worried about me,
so as soon as I had rested a little - enough to walk - and had got some
of the dust out of my eyes, the chaplain and I hurried down to our
house to let him know that I was safe.
At every house along the line the heavy shutters were closed, and not
one living thing was to be seen, and the post looked as though it
might have been long abandoned. There was a peculiar light, too, that
made the most familiar objects seem strange. Yes, we saw a squad of
enlisted men across the parade ground, trying with immense ropes to
get back in place the heavy roof of the long commissary building which
had been partly blown off.
