7Their horses were saddled and loaded; the three boys stood before them, outwardly stolid, inwardly feverish to be gone. She clasped his fingers in a brief but strong grip, then bent to pick up her riding gloves, which she had stripped off in her need to touch him skin to skin. Susannah wondered briefly what the countryside through which they were passing looked like, and decided she didn’t really want to know. Then he knelt beside Roland.
“Nay, young master, Thorin understands ye’ve come to do a job—next door to workin cowboys, ye be! ’Ware they don’t ha I told Lengyll and Avery to fire a double set of pistol-shots if anything went wrong, and there hasn’t been any shooting like that. One look at the hamper and she was ravenous. He could not see any other dead people, but experience suggested that where there were two dead, there were likely four more dead somewhere out of sight.
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