The three horses had been unsaddled but no one had returned them to the remuda. The future had shrunk to one fact: Dee Boot. It's a miracle you can keep fresh out in these raw parts. But she felt it anyway, fair judgment or not, and lay awake on her cot through half the night, tense with selfreproach.
I ain't been the same since that child died. She was beginning to feel scared--she felt so weak she could hardly hold her eyes open, and she wanted more than anything to talk to Dee. That's a big disappointment, Augustus said. Their fright made her contemptuous of them, and whenever she caught one of them looking at her she met the look with a cold stare.
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