There's towns in Montana, but that's a long way. People get a hankering to quit what they're doing. They were all interested in the fact that he was traveling with a coffin and asked him many questions about the man inside it. Why? she asked.
There would be someone to help him watch the prisoner, once there was a prisoner. He began to listen--waiting to be told, his hope always growing. He seemed to think it would be easy for her to be respectable. Sometimes the mere act of cleaning a gun, an act he had performed thousands of times, would empty his mind of jarring thoughts and memories--but this time it didn't work.
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