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"Don’t want to do that," the woer off"

Eustace yanked his hand away "Right"

He stood and looked at the woly-looking a thing as he’d ever laid eyes on It was entirely possible that her parents had given her to the Possuains were common

"You said you found the rifle"

She retrieved it fro out an ee He asked her where she’d found it Her eyes didn’t look in quite the same direction; it made her a little hard to talk to

"Just about where you’re standing"

"And you didn’t hear anything else Only the one shot"

"Happened like I said"

He was beginning to wonder if ed his body to the river, busted up the hutches to cover her tracks Well, if she had, she probably had a good enough reason, and Eustace sure as hell wasn’t going to do anything about it

"I’ll put the word out He turns up, you let us know"

"You sure you don’t want to co hiure out what it was Her off-kilter gaze traveled the length of his body, then lingered pointedly The gesture was supposed to be seductive but wasto sell itself

"Folks say you ain’t got a woman"

Eustace wasn’t perturbed Well, maybe a little But the woman had been treated like property all her life; she had no other way of doing things

"Don’t believe everything you hear"

"But what’ll I do he’s dead?"

"You’ve got two possums, don’t you? Make more"

"Them there? Them’s both boys"

Eustace handed back the rifle "I’"

He returned to the jail Fry, at his desk with his boots up, was paging through a picture book