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"About four"My mother-in-law is Sara Wilson Maybe you know her"
"Know her? I trained her I thought her daughter worked at the hospital, though"
"That’s Kate My wife is Piht for a moment "I don’t remember a Pi Nice of you, to marry her"
Caleb had heard statements like this before "I’m sure she thinks it’s the other way around"
"On the other hand, ouldn’t want a ho couldn’t talk? I can barely put two thoughts together around here"
Caleb just looked at him
"Well," Elacqua said, and cleared his throat, "I can pay a call if she’d like, just to see how things are going"
At the door, Caleb reme it for him when the office opened
"I can try Those people are never there"
"I ondering about that," Caleb said "The town seems kind of empty"
"I didn’t notice" He frowned doubtfully "Could be the uess That happens out here"
"Has anyone been attacked?"
"Not that I’ve heard, just livestock With the bounty, a lot of folks are out looking Stupid, if you ask s are nasty"
Caleb rode out of town At least he’d tried to post the letter As for Elacqua, he seriously doubted Pi to do with the man The mountain lion didn’t concern him unduly It was simply the price one paid for life on the frontier Still, he would tell Pim not to take Theo to the river for a while The two of them should stay near the house until the matter was resolved
They ate their supper and went to bed Rain was falling,on the roof In the ht, Caleb awoke to a sharp cry For a terrifying second he thought soain, fro--fear andhe searched the brush behind the house He came to an area of broken branches; tufts of short, stiff hair, tacky with blood, were spread over the ground He thought it ht have been a raccoon He scanned the area for tracks, but the rain had washed thee to the Tatuood-sized barn and a house with a standing-sea beneath the front s Dorien Taturay hair in a bun; she directed hie of the property, where her husband was clearing brush
"A mountain lion, you say?" Phil removed his hat to mop his brow in the heat
"That’s the word in town"