Many were unable to give directions to the next settlement, much less to a place as remote as Texas. I imagine he's got five or six whores in his string right now. They got back to Wilbarger a little after sundown, before the plains had begun to lose the long twilight. Ellie had wanted to get to town, he remembered, and he was determined to wait until she could go.
These things are chancy. The next afternoon the soldiers turned west, assuring him that he only had to hold a course southwest and he would eventually hit San Antonio. We can't stop here, Call said. Before she thought about it being Gus, she saw him yank his horse almost down right in the middle of the Kiowas.
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