Chapter 13I arrived at Fort Yanube around high sun the next day. As the sentry box was not manned, I drove the buckboard straight onto the post without challenge. Howling Wolf could have led his party right up to the headquarters building without much trouble. Of course, he’d stir up a nest of blue-coated wasps to sting his backside if he tried it.
A man with three stripes told me where to find Captain Haleworthy’s billet, and I was lucky enough to catch the couple at home. Rachel Ann came flying through the door and clasped me as if I were a lifeline, but after we disentangled and I’d given her husband an American handshake, I discerned from her rush of words that she was happy in her marriage and coming to grips with her environment. Nonetheless, she hankered for the sight of a familiar
