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He felt the remark was slightly insulting. The Rainey boys looked as if they might fall off their horses. Then Jake had come and taken her, just taken her, as easily as picking a hat off a rack. Lorena had never seen a scalp before, but she felt sure the patches were scalps.

A bullet had hit a rib and turned downward into his gut. She had the look of a beaten dog. Once the night got late, the woods were as noisy as a saloon, only Roscoe didn't know what most of the noises meant. They're camped, Deets said.