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sorts.  He was angry and embarrassed, and she could see that Doctor Cooper couldn’t care a wit.  She took her boxes to the doctor’s cot and stood there as the blonde put hers on the cot, then slid them, one at a time, under her bed.  She took the boxes from Maddie’s arms with a smile and slid those under as well.  “You certainly may,” the blonde answered the doctor’s demanding tone.  With a wink, she hurried back to the entrance where he stood.  Maddie went to help Leida make her bed, wanting to find something to do while the two doctors butted heads.
    “All medical supplies are to be shared among our people,” Doctor Burton began frostily as he indicated they should leave the tent with a nod of his head.  It clearly stated, ‘outside’ without words.
    Doctor Cooper smiled, showing she wasn’t put off by his tone or demeanor.  “I agree,” she told him in a perky tone that she knew would irritate him.  “That’s why the rest of those boxes in the back of my Rover are for your clinic.”
    “But those,” he began, his thumb pointing back at the four boxes that she and Maddie had taken into her tent.
    “Are for me,” she told him dismissively.  “Give me a hand with these?” she indicated the boxes in the back of the Rover, effectively changing the subject.
    Doctor Burton looked at the pile of boxes with the distinctive red cross on the side and read some of the labels.  He practically salivated at some of what he read.  If that was what was really in those boxes, they needed these things desperately here at the clinic.  He called to a few people he recognized to help carry things over to the supply rooms, and the Rover was soon emptied.  He had his concerns about this young doctor that looked like she should be in high school, but her folder showed her to be very competent.  He wondered who she knew to get an assignment such as this.  Her qualifications were even better than his and he resented that; he had so many more years of experience.  This, this cheerleader wasn’t going to show him up!
    Doctor Cooper noticed that Doctor Burton had his dander up.  She wasn’t surprised.  Those in authority frequently did when they met her.  She also noticed he never thanked her for the supplies she had hauled in here for his little clinic.  She knew that clinics like this were always short on things and she had brought everything she could fit in the back of her Rover that she knew would be beneficial to the clinic.  From medicines to surgical gloves, she had brought a good quantity.  A simple thank you wouldn’t have hurt the man, but he was already angry about the mechanic mix-up.  She had learned a long time ago that if she was going to work in the tropics, she needed to know how to be self-sufficient and fixing her own vehicle wasn’t too much to ask.
    “Hey, you two ready?” she asked the two nurses.  She hadn’t learned either of their names and set about remedying that as she saw that the Australian’s bed was made and she was dressed.  “Hi, I’m Doctor Cooper,” she came forward with her hand out to be heartily shaken by the woman from down under.  “It’s Deanna to my friends,” she promised with a smile, offering that friendship.
    “I’m Leida Hanson,” she smiled in return, appreciating the introduction.
    “We didn’t introduce ourselves earlier,” Deanna said, turning to the other woman with her hand out.
    “I’m Madison MacGregor, Maddie to my friends,” she smiled.
    “Maddie MacGregor, that has a ring to it,” the Bostonian accent was apparent, and there was perhaps a little bit of the Irish.
    “Yes, I’ve heard it all my life,” she said with a long-suffering sigh.
    “Oy, don’t let it get to you,” she said with a friendly pseudo-Irish brogue.
    They all shared a laugh.
    “Can we get this going?  I’m floating,” Leida complained good-naturedly and rocked from foot to foot for emphasis.
    They all used the facilities, such as they