“And besides all your other duties you have shared the watch with these three cowboys?”
“Yes.”
“It has been going on without my knowledge?”
“Yes.”
“Since when?”
“Since I brought you down from the mountains last month.”
“How long is it to continue?”
“That’s hard to say. Till the revolution is over, anyhow.”
She mused a moment, looking away to the west, where the great void was filling with red haze. She believed implicitly in him, and the menace hovering near her fell like a shadow upon her present happiness.
“What must I do?” she asked.