"Yes, and her uncle, too."
Gabriel seemed mystified.
"You see, I haven't any father—or mother either, Gabriel. My uncle has to be both," Blue Bonnet explained.
"That's like me, too. I'm a orphant!"
Blue Bonnet caught her breath quickly. To be an orphan—and ill; desperately poor, too! The world wasn't such a cheerful place after all.
"I lent the soldiers to another feller," Gabriel said presently. "He's sicker than I am."
"Then you shall have some more, Gabriel. It was fine of you to be so unselfish."
"I wasn't. They made me!"
The nurse started to explain. Gabriel interrupted.
"I want my own—they can fight like—I didn't say it, did I? I told you I wouldn't never again, Miss Warren."