Clara devoted five minutes to trying to persuade him to settle somewhere on the Platte. For a moment his spirits rose, just from the sound of Gus's voice. If there was a tree in these parts I'd be sitting under it. You have a point, and it's a point I've often taxed myself with, Wilbarger said.
Augustus regretted that his preoccupation with the arrows had made him so lax that he had failed to protect the horses. By the way, you didn't cross the path of a young sheriff from Arkansas, did you? He's up this way somewhere, and I've been worried about him. It occurred to him that Ellie was probably camped under the same stars, the same sky. Newt, we've enjoyed having you, Clara said.
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