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Our hard-worked garrison, almost worn down by watching and riding, and, at sight of these men, hoping always to be relieved, snarled bitterly at such apparently useless expenditure of leg-muscle, an article, truly, of which those lean, saffron-colored trampers had but too scanty supply for ordinary need.
She was quite pale, in fact, as she stepped down from her driving-seat, glanced at her buckskin gauntlets, and then looked up at me. "There's something we may as well face, and face at once," she said, with less of a drawl than usual. I waited, without speaking, wondering if she was referring to the tub. But I could feel my heart contract, like a leg-muscle with a cramp in it.
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