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The cavalry was short of officers and he got assigned to Sanford's troop, and the biggest surprise that had come since his commission met him one day at Gila Bend, when that same old red stage, a relic of California days, emerged from the dust-cloud of its own manufacture, and a quiet youth in pepper-and-salt and sand-colored costume, looked up from behind a pair of green goggles saying: "Hullo, Blake!"
She couldn't help laughing out at the happy acceptance of her admiring speech; the charm was about her; she understood; it wasn't vanity, but something flower-like. "You have heaps, too," said Valerie. "Oh, but it's sand-colored. And I do it so horribly. It is so heavy and pulls back so." "I know; that's the difficulty with heaps of hair.
Even her personal outfit was something of a revelation. How deliciously keen and new was this consciousness of clothes the smart high-laced boots, the soft, sand-colored coat and skirt, the knickers which felt so easy and so trim, the cool, silk shirt with its wide collar, the dainty, intimate things beneath!
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