I want you to take Joe. He had crossed the Nueces many times, and yet, as the moment approached when he would have to do it again, he felt he couldn't. He hurried to Santa Rosa, risking further damage to the wagon, only to discover that the hanging had been put back a week. He carried the bodies up to the prairie, laid them in their shallow graves and helped July pile rocks on the graves, a pitiful expedient that wouldn't deter the varmints for long.
He had never seen or imagined anything so rash. July was prepared to accept a certain rowdiness on the part of the cowboys as they passed through, but he felt no leniency at all for men like Jake Spoon. Gus said I was to stay, he said nervously. He used the plank with Hat Creek Cattle Company and Livery Emporium on it as a crossbar, tying it to a long mesquite stick, which he drove into the ground with a big rock.
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