When she had nothing to do but sit around and think about it, her capacity for mistakes discouraged her so that she considered drowning herself in the little pool. Call felt some resentment, as he almost always had when thinking of his friend. Hell, the Rio Grande ain't the only river, Augustus commented, but before they could continue the discussion they saw a group of riders come over a ridge, far to the north. In her day she had been the most sought-after girl in Texas, and yet she had married him, and followed him to the Nebraska plains, and stayed and worked beside him.
I'll get them nervous dreams. We'll pack him in charcoal and salt, the doctor said. But he didn't start. It was just a bush, Janey said, when she came back.
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