He was pondering the question of whether to take a man with him. In the back of her mind she knew that she had to get up and feed Bob but the desire to sleep was too heavy--she couldn't make herself move. Yes, but we had our happiness in Texas, Augustus said. He had just run out of luck on the plains.
He rode over and stopped a respectful distance away, so as not to frighten the mule team. I was never a big meat eater, she said. This time she neither hugged him nor took his hand; she walked past him without a look. In the long days and nights, with no one to talk to but Fowler, and him only occasionally, Elmira found herself thinking more and more about Dee.
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