And she might kill him yet. Now what's that old cook doing? They saw all the cowboys gathered around the wagon, which still dripped from its passage through the river. I don't like sending that boy off to sit up with a whore, he said. If you don't like it you can leave, and if I can't put up with you I expect I could soon run you off.
The business of the ax, and what he had heard when retrieving it, was forgotten--it had puzzled him so long that it had finally just slipped from his mind. Of course, it wasn't much better than nothing--a coyote would probably just come along and drag the skull off, and Wilbarger too. The man soon walked away and a heavy silence fell--so heavy that Elmira wondered if everyone had left the boat. The Irishmen were particularly good night herders because they could sing; their melodies seemed to soothe the cattle.
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