The cowboys that came through were very poor cardplayers, so he could usually make his fee back in an hour. Gus was the only thing that kept the memories away, and sometimes they were so fresh and frightening that she wished she had died so her brain would stop working and just leave her in the quiet. Take her a fish now and then, if you catch one, he said. Didn't like Arkansas, I guess, Louisa said.
You don't like to do nothing but sit on the porch and drink whiskey anyway. In the early morning he would stand and relieve himself in plain sight of her, grinning and looking at her while he did it. I'm a bony old woman now and you're a deceiving man, anyway. His wound felt minor, though the bullet was somewhere in him, and would have to stay until he made Austin, he knew.
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