desert-dingy

Updated: January 16, 2026

And that is a fair description of Holman Sommers as Helen May first saw him. He drove up to where she sat, and she tilted her pink silk parasol between them as though to keep the dust from settling thick upon her stained khaki skirt and her desert-dingy high-laced boots. She was not interested in him, and her manner of expressing indifference could not have misled a horned toad.

B. M. Bower - Starr, of the Desert