It was expected that the Sioux under this chief would break out at any minute.

They had become disaffected about some treaty.

I did not like to be left alone with the Spiritualist, so Jack asked one of the laundresses, whose husband was out with the company, to come and stay and take care of me.

Mrs.Patten was an old campaigner; she understood everything about officers and their ways, and she made me absolutely comfortable for those two lonely months.

I always felt grateful to her; she was a dear old Irish woman.
All the families and a few officers were left at the post, and, with the daily drive to Cheyenne, some small dances and theatricals, my time was pleasantly occupied.
Cheyenne in those early days was an amusing but unattractive frontier town; it presented a great contrast to the old civilization I had so recently left.