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Bud heard hi

the e had

happened, even if Cash had not been running Bud dropped his pick and

started on a run to ht" Cash stopped abruptly, blocking Bud's way "It's

so else Bud, his mother's come after hio" Bud's voice had a grimness in it that spelled trouble for

the lady laid out in a faint "She can be his mother a thousand ti out there and raise no

hell with that poor girl Lovins belongs to her, and she's going to have

hiot so more

to say He's her kid, and she wants hiit him away from her, it'll be over oin' up against Cash Markhairl that I ain't seen since she was

a kid in short dresses It's her father you've got to deal with now--her

father and the kid's grandfather You get that? You be reasonable, Bud,

and there won't be no trouble at all But oin' to be