Theola knew the General was not asleep. He did not speak and he kept very still, and yet she knew instinctively that he was awake. She thought perhaps he was listening in case the shot with which she had killed his assailant had alerted the enemy forces.
Then she reasoned to herself that the report from her pistol would not have carried far and if there was only one scout, there was no reason to think that anyone except their own troops would have heard it. But she could understand the General being tense and anxious lest his plans should go wrong. She wanted to talk to him, wanted him to reassure her that she had done the right thing.
She had killed a man!
There was nothing else she could have done! And Theola was sure that the General’s explanation was right when he said the scout mus
