09/02/2026 04:29

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Gus was a hard traveler and usually overtook whoever he was after promptly, arrested them or dispatched them, and got back. Waking in the gray dawn, he would have Roscoe's face in his mind; when he dreamed, it was of Roscoe and Joe and the young girl. Gus had shot a snake with his big Colt. Soon they began to pour over a cutbank of some kind.

Of course the Indians might shoot him if he ran, but what really stopped him was the fact that he had no idea where the rest of the boys were. They walked in silence for a while. He said no more, and soon noticed that Augustus was dozing. He had never understood Gus and never would, even if the Indians didn't kill them.