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Let's git, Blue Duck said. It beats loading them longhorns. This is like living in a hotel, Lorie, Augustus said. We'll catch them.

He ate with them, thanked them again, and left under a rising moon. It was a long piece to Texas and back. Water was scarce and the horse soon too lame to ride. You best come for a day or two, he said.