It Was Closed During
My Two Months' Absence, As Faye Had Lived Down With The Bachelors.
The
very day that Mrs. Rae came the quartermaster had sent a man to repair
one of the chimneys, and plaster and dirt had been left in my room,
the one I had intended Mrs. Rae to occupy.
And then, to make matters
just as bad as possible, there was a sand storm late in the afternoon
that had, of course, sifted dust over all things.
But this was not all! My nerves had not recovered from the shock at
Granada, and had given out entirely that day just before dinner, and
had sent me to bed with an uncomfortable chill. Still, I was not
disheartened. Before I went East many things had been put away, but
West had unpacked and polished the silver several days before, and the
glass was shining and the china closets in perfect order, all of which
had been attended to with my own hands. Besides, the wife of one of
the sergeants was to come the next morning to dust and clean the
little house from top to bottom, so there was really nothing to worry
about, as everything would be in order long before time for the stage
to arrive that would bring Mrs. Rae.
But after the chill came a fever, and with the fever came dreams, most
disturbing dreams, in which were sounds of crunching gravel, then
far-away voices - voices that I seemed to have heard in another world.
A door was opened, and then - oh!
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