Used to be I was quick to duck any kind of trouble. The horse waded out, dripping, and the black man dismounted and let it shake itself. They were excellent horsethieves themselves. She had wept for weeks before he left, thinking it wrong that he should leave her.
He said the Army had them all stirred up, he added. I had that figured out, even without the dates, but the dates jibe pretty well. Or everybody but Gus, who laughed long and hard. There ain't much to hide behind on these plains.
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