It was a strange life, just staying in the tent and talking to no one but Gus, but she was used to it. So long, boys, he said. Augustus was amazed to see an enormous pyramid of buffalo bones perhaps fifty yards from the water. Zwey gnawed on a big drumstick while he pondered.
With such a crowd there watching he couldn't muster a protest, and he drove the little wagon three miles west on the Platte to a place where there were a few small cottonwoods. He wasn't hurt much, but he complained, and the sheriff took Sally to jail and kept her. All he was conscious of was that somehow he would have to outlast Jake, for there could be no woman for him except the one across the table. Their total inexperience was offset by an energy and a will to learn that impressed even Call.
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