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You paid for yours, but so far me and Lorie have got off scot-free. Jake sat with the boy and the Irishmen and watched the proceedings without much interest. Then, to his dismay, he looked back and saw twenty or thirty cattle standing behind them. He spent the whole night thinking about the woman in the tent nearby, imagining things that might happen when they finally came to Montana and were through with the trail.

Augustus watched them eat the poor burned breakfast. He wanted to ask Deets some questions, but between one flash and another Deets vanished. They had horses and they would catch her and do something to her, or else give her to the Kiowas. It was a settler's boy, he said.