"And she has betrayed her secret, poor child," said Ella Dewhurst, with deepest sympathy.
"Yes, she loves the man that I love, the man that I am to marry," was Violet Earl's low response, and her words and voice were deeply sympathetic.
"How brave you are, Violet, for with such news as you have just heard I would break utterly down," Ella Dewhurst remarked, as she bathed Emma's face with cologne water.
"Ella, you heard what Dr. Frank Powell said about Lieutenant Carey's luck? Well, I believe in it most thoroughly," was the firm response of the brave girl, so well suited to be a soldier's wife.
CHAPTER XXXII.
The military band around the hostiles was drawing closer and closer.
General Miles, with his headquarters at Pine Ridge Agency, was directing operations in an able manner, and was master of the situation, though he fretted at having orders from Washington regarding his conduct of the campaign against the redskins.
The other officers commanding columns were holding their men well in hand, and were ready to strike a blow when the time came to do so.