She stood looking round the post, across the white-hot parade ground, to the adobe barracks and the sutler's store. Then she turned and considered the officers' quarters. They were a row of hospital, wall, and A tents, floored with rough boards and sheltered by ramadas of willow branches.
In the middle of the line there was a one-room mud hut. This, with the tents back of it, was her home. Landor had fitted up the hut with Navajo blankets, Indian baskets, dolls, saddle bags, war bonnets, and quivers; with stuffed birds and framed chromos, camp-chairs and some rough quartermaster's furniture. A gray blanket, with a yellow Q. M. D. in the centre, kept the glare out at the window, and the room was cool enough. One advantage of adobe—and it has others—is that it retains all summer the winter cold, and all winter the summer heat.
"Barnwell tells me," he began, "that you have picked up a good deal of Apache."He bit his lip and did not reply, either to the words or to the caress. "You need a month of the mountains, I think," he said."Barnwell tells me," he began, "that you have picked up a good deal of Apache."
FORE:"Yes," whispered the little girl, squirming in Felipa's arms, "I am dlad you's come. Let me doe."