Jake by this time had untied his bedroll and thrown it down under a big mesquite. In his daydreams he fell to reinventing the past, imagining that he had married Clara instead of Elmira. It was just more bad luck--noticing a pretty girl on a wagon seat was where it started in this case. Lippy broke down and cried a time or two, thinking of Gus.
But every man in the Territory had insisted on buying the deputy a drink since then; perhaps he had been capable of sobriety before he became a hero. A girl named Janey was also kilt, I don't know much about her, Roscoe said he met her in the woods. How could you guess? he asked. Betsey liked company as much as her sister.
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